The Image Of "Bride" In The Great Leap Forward Folk Songs

The female images in the great leap forward folk songs are usually the crucial images for the study of the great leap forward literature,and evolution of contemporary poetry.They are also the reference objects for exploring the process of Chinese women’s Liberation and the people’s mental outlook in the special era.The female image of "bride" appears frequently and widely in the great leap forward folk songs,which is an important phenomenon worthy of attention.The female group defined by it is not only related to the growth of women themselves,but also closely connected with the family and society.Its folk cultural connotation also involves many marriage customs and folk tastes,which determines that it is no longer a one-way,successive female image,but a "polyhedron" that has conflicts with the inherent characteristics and requirements of The Times of the Great Leap Forward Movement.Therefore,this paper separates the "new daughter-in-law" from the simple division of the previous female image,clarifies its unique concept and connotation,re combs the way of the "Bride" image entering the great leap forward folk songs,hoping to show a new interpretation of the space,and reflects more rich historical content and literary enlightenment through the "polyhedron".The text of this paper is divided into three chapters.The first one mainly analyzes the concept of "bride" and its unique cultural connotation,and finds the tension between the bride and the spirit of the times according to the changes of the image of "bride" from the folk texts to the great leap forward folk songs."Bride" in the folk songs of the great leap forward is dissociate from the taxonomy of various female images,because the concept of "bride" is a group name which full of complexity,and in the literary text,it also has established folk cultural connotation,which is inevitably closely related to women’s body,private emotion,family and society.Then there’s an evident contradiction between the taboo of personal emotion and the collectivization goal in the movement period,which creates the possibility of understanding of “bride” image in the great leap forward folk songs deeply.Chapter 2 is to discuss the reasons.The "bride" incompatible with the requirements of the Great Leap Forward Movement in terms of concept and cultural meaning,while it appears in the folk songs of the Great Leap Forward Movement continually.Through the analysis of texts and the discriminate of historical environment,"bride" in the folk customs and women’s growth has a lot of break time out of labor to be found,and this is the crucial time gap that the great leap forward movement want to seize to speed-up of the production.In social relations,the bride implicate a variety of evaluation criteria,which also provides an opportunity for the great leap forward movement to carry out social reform.So many poets also make use of the identity replaced by this layer of standards to express their stance and protect themselves.The third chapter focuses on the historical value and literary significance of the bride image in the great leap forward folk songs.Because the image of bride is real existed in history for a long time,So the relevant data,oral records can be compared with the folk song texts.with the assistance of typical representative "bride" folk songs,we can see the real state of its reflection of the special times and people’s material and spiritual life from many levels and aspects.On the other hand,the image of "new daughter-in-law" in many styles can provide a literary reference for the great leap forward folk songs,that is,the Enlightenment of the development of poetry style and the reflection on the poet’s creation.