Research On Wujing 《the Explanation On Classic Title Of Yuefu》

As the cultural and literary traditions of Yuefu (the the combination of music and literature, starting from Han dynasty) and the classic title(that was immtated in the later years) had been distinctly affected by music and music culture. As the symbol of the traditions of Yuefu, the conflictions between the classic title and the text also originated and developed with the various distributaries of music culture.The first and second chapters discuses the effects that Chinese ancient music culture had on the cultural and literary traditions of Yuefu and the classic title.Actually,Chinese ancient music culture may divided into three parts:firstly, as the history documents to record events;secondly,as part of the Confucianism to educate people and to stabilize the society;thirdly, as entertainment to satisfy human kind's need.The first two points suited the rulers interests, but the last one gratified people. Diversion like this attributed the two trends of the Yuefu poems:the first two endowed the high status to the Yuefu poems as the successor of《The Book of Songs》 and lead Yuefu poems-writing back to the original meaning;the third one promoted the Yuefu poems away from the confines of the classic title.The birth of《the Explanation on Classic Title of Yuefu》 is inevitable, in which the author researched the original meaning of the classic title of Yuefu in order to act in cooperation with the literary tide during High Tang.Chapter four focuses on the book of《the explanation on the classic title of Yuefu》,in which the versions,the contents and the value of the book was clarified.On the version,《the Explanation on Classic Title of Yuefu》 had three kind complete versions: the first one is printed by Maojin who live Ming dynasty, which is the general version tooday; the second one is the handwritten copy finished by Liuqian who lived the Zhengde years in Ming dynasty which was saved in JingJiaTang private library in Tokyo; the third one was printed by Liangwu who lived Ming dynasty which was preserved in national library of China in Beijing. In terms of content,《the Explanation on Classic Title of Yuefu》 collected a great deal of the classic title and uncover edthe true meaning of them by the original story and lyrics and classify the classic title by different music and compile large number of Miscellaneous poems during In Wei Jin Southern and Northern dynasties.As a summary of Han Wei and the Six Dynasties ancient title made by people in Tang dynasty, 《the Explanation on Classic Title of Yuefu》 served as a link between past and future. It quoted the result on the research Yuefu and the classic title before Tang dynasty and affected the later study.《The explanation on the classic title of Yuefu》 cited four kind literatures:the music documents; the official history book; the collection on lyrics; the book on expounding the classic title and the note-novel.The academic inheritance of 《the Explanation on Classic Title of Yuefu》 is mainly reflected in two aspects:the classification of Yuefu poems and the explanation on the classic title. on classification,the book divided the poems as ten categories on the base of music document from 《Book on Song Dynasty》 and the new development Han Wei and the Six Dynasties.On the classic title explaining the book explores the original meaning through finding the original story and lyrics,which was learned by Guomaoqian and later scholars.Wujing,the author of 《the Explanation on Classic Title of Yuefu》 is a famous historian in Tang dynasty.The fourth part of Chapter three discusses the relation between the book and Wujing's political ideal by analyzing his family,experience and thought.Then, Chapter five investigates Wujing's sensation on Yuefu, that is understanding Yuefu in literary, politice, history and criticizing the poem trend during Qi and Liang dynasty which deviated from the original meaning of the classic title. It not only reflected the deliberation of Wujing to the value of the classic title historically,but also included his concern to the national ritual-music culture. In addition, Wujing's sensation on Yuefu also related with the Yuefu poem writing and the conception Yuefu of peole in Tang dynasty.