A Literary Study Of Bronze Inscriptions In Henan

This paper takes the Shang and Zhou bronze inscriptions handed down and unearthed in Henan Province as the research object and takes the literariness of the bronze inscriptions as the breakthrough point,analyzes and studies the primary content,poetry and music criticism,character aesthetic criticism,literary form characteristics,lyric consciousness of the bronze inscriptions in Henan Province.The introduction part expounds the feasibility and value of the literature research on the bronze inscriptions in Henan province,summarizes the comprehensive research status of the bronze inscriptions in Henan province,and explains the research significance,research purpose and research methods of this paper.The first chapter is the content research of Henan bronze inscriptions research.The first section of this chapter mainly apply analytical induction.This part is divided into seven parts according to the specific content of Henan bronze inscriptions,for example “offerings to the forefathers”,“reward”,“pray for blessings”,“treats guests”,“daughter get married”,“battle achievement”,“carving names on utensil”,and on the basis of classification of Henan bronze inscriptions style characteristics and discusses its development.The second section mainly analyzes and discusses the custom culture and people’s cultural psychology reflected by Henan bronze inscriptions,such as "sacrificial culture","longevity consciousness" and "Marriage customs".The second chapter is the study of the poetry and music thought of Henan bronze inscriptions.The first section of this chapter mainly discusses the poetic and musical functions of Henan bronze inscriptions from the three aspects of," entertaining god with poetry and music "," Entertain people with poetry and music " and " Poetry and music make people happy".This part expounds the political,religious and social functions of poetry and music.The second section mainly starts from the two aspects of " Talk about music through ‘harmony’ " and " The connection between music and politics ",discusses the poetic and musical concept of Henan bronze inscriptions,and shows the development of the poetic and musical culture in central China under the background of "harmony of poetry and music" in the pre-Qin period.The third chapter is the study of the character criticism of Henan bronze inscriptions.The first section of this chapter discusses Henan bronze inscriptions’ s "Moral and character criticism",which mainly includes "moral criticism" and "loyalty criticism".The second section discusses the "talent criticism" and "appearance criticism" respectively.Among them,the former can be divided into "criticism of administrative ability" and "Criticism of military ability",while the latter is mainly "criticism of appearance and temperament".Here reflects the Henan bronze inscriptions strong sense of character criticism and strong literary criticism.The fourth chapter is about the stylistic types and stylistic characteristics of Henan bronze inscriptions.The first section of this chapter mainly divides Henan bronze inscriptions into three types of "the literary form of bulletin"," the literary form of command" and " the literary form of admonition" according to the style typeof Shang Shu,and conducts in-depth analysis and discussion on inscriptions of different styles.The second section takes the book of songs as the reference to analyze the characteristics of Poetry of Henan bronze inscriptions.It is mainly expounded from the following three aspects: the poetic tendency of four-character sentence pattern,the poetic tendency of language and the poetic tendency of rhythm.The main purpose is to explore the stylistic development characteristics of Henan bronze inscriptions,and to provide a reference for the research on the development of pre-Qin style.The fifth chapter is about the lyrical consciousness of Henan bronze inscriptions.The first section of this chapter discusses the feelings of praise expressed by Henan bronze inscriptions.This section is mainly divided into three parts: praising the virtues of Kings,praising the merits of ministers and expressing self-praise.The second section mainly discusses the filial piety and ancestor worship in the lyrical consciousness of Henan bronze inscriptions.The third section mainly expounds the feelings of pleasure and interjection in Henan bronze inscriptions’ s lyrical consciousness,And discusses the ways of expressing feelings by using scenery and the use of interjection.The aim of this chapter is to further study the literary thought of Henan bronze inscriptions from its lyrical consciousness.