The Social Function Of The Pre-qin Dynasty Folk Songs

The Pre-Qin folk songs and ballds are not simply one of the forms of literature,but the synthesis of a variety of spiritual culture activities.They have a thousand and one links with the history,politics,religion,culture,folk-custom of Pre-Qin dynasty.This thesis takes the Pre-Qin folk songs and ballds’ functional research as an angle and puts them in the major components of Pre-Qin social culture, which in order to understand their significant practical values deeply.This thesis is composed of seven parts:The introduction part generally recognizes the origin of ballds,briefly introduces the difference and the connection of ballds,basicly discribes the division of the Pre-Qin folk songs and ballds’ history,simply summrizes these ballds’ character.Based on all above, the introduction part tries to reveal the background of the social functions of the Pre-Qin folk songs and ballds.Chapter Ⅰ, the Pre-Qin folk songs and ballds’entertainment functions.Entertainment functions are the first function of all the folk songs and ballds.From the target of entertainment, the Pre-Qin folk songs and ballds’ entertainment functions may be classified into three kinds:amusing oneself, amusing god, amusing others.The three kinds of functions are appeared constantly,that is to say, their functions’happen are from amuse oneself to amuse god,then to others.But the three kinds of functions are not displaced one by another,sometimes ballds can exert the three kinds of functions at the same time.Chapter Ⅱ is the one to discuss the Pre-Qin folk songs and ballds’ communicate and interact functions.The functions are mainly discussed from the following four aspects:communication between human beings and Deity, praise and criticize politics, express ambition and load morality, daily communication and so on.Chapter Ⅲ is to discourse the Pre-Qin folk songs and ballds’ ceremony functions.Singing and dancing performances constitute ceremonies’ integrity and normalization,and conform the whole social order and mass psychology at the background of ceremonies.This chapter will combine some specific occasions to set forth the Pre-Qin folk songs and ballds’ ceremony functions.Chapter Ⅳ is to explore the Pre-Qin folk songs and ballds’ standardization and polymerization functions. Ballds can make Pre-Qin people’s values and ethics trend towards unified standard,such as valuing material gains above justice, commiting to filial piety and charity, being honest and credible. Ballds also can civilize the populace, make changes in customs and traditions, intergrate families and the nation,which erert cultural function as following:standardizing social memerbers’thoughts and actions, coordinating relations, condensating national acceptance and unifying social induction power.Chapter Ⅴ is to analysis the Pre-Qin folk songs and ballds’ civilization and cognition functions. Ballds are compendium and semantide of masses’ knowledge and experience.They have been passed down orally,which give civilization functions to the ballds to impart skill and experience.The Pre-Qin folk songs and ballds can seize the general truth of nature,society,history,life by a visual and overall way,they have cognition functions to record the world’s look,revive primal life and explicate philosophy.In the conclusion part, the value and significance of the research on Pre-Qin folk songs and ballds’ functions are clarified.