The Erotic Ci In Tang And Song Dynasties In The Prospectives Of Variation And Aesthetics

Ci are basically erotic and coquetry. Ci has an intimate and inborn link with love affairs, also mainly describe and "illustrate them. Not only did it appear with the beginning of Ci, also it gets along with the development and variation of Ci. This dissertation explores and evaluates an overall and macroscopic studies of the Erotic Ci in the perspectives of its variation and aesthetics. It aims at discovering its course of development, the track of variety and revealing its ethos and styles of aesthetics .Accordingly the dissertation is divided into two facets of variation and aesthetics: Firstly it is about the facet of its variation: It holds that the characteristics of the Yan Music-the music and songs which Ci go with, the special requirements that Ci should be melodic and sung, the influences and infiltration of the Late-Tang erotic poems, the hedonic conceptions and the rise of the consciousness of love , these factors together determined the growth and prosperity of the Erotic Ci. While the Erotic Ci in Dunhuang folk Ci has the unique features of original arts, it provides rich ingredients and helpful suggestions for those Ci written by the men of letters. Based on that, the Erotic Ci has experienced three periods of upsurge, extension and variation. The period of upsurge includes the erotic Ci in Huajian and the South Tang and the early North Song dynasties, the extension includes The erotic Ci in Liu Yong's poems and Mid-late North Song dynasties, Variation includes those produced after moving to the south and in the early South Song, late south Song dynasties. They share some common features about sentimental implications, self-consciousness, and artistic expressions, furthermore, the striking changes compared with those former Ci creations.Secondly it is about the facet of aesthetics: it concerns two themes: those about women's sentiments and about death and mourning, the aesthetics features are concentrated in the sentimental connotation, aesthetics images .aesthetic tastes of the women's sentiments, the psychological complex, lyric modes and the aesthetic qualities and styles. The refined and popular Erotic Ci are two typical types of aesthetic patterns, they have distinctive features in literature tastes, language and lyric characters, and develop in the contradictory co-existence. Besides, The Ci in Tang and Song Dynasties is gifted with abundant aesthetic implications. It has depicted picturesque images of feminine beauty, brilliance of human virtues and the tragic aesthetics, and these are the very aesthetic values of the Erotic Ci in Tang and Song Dynasties.