Study Of Tang Dynasty Poetry Dance

The dancing poems in the Tang Dynasty are the poems described dances, dancers, and the surroundings of dance, and lyrics and dance music that were popular in the Tang Dynasty and then preserved in the form of poem. Therefore, these poems can be divided into four parts, including Yong Wu poems, lyric and dance music, Yong Wu Ji poems and poems related to dance circumstances. When we study on the dancing poems in the Tang Dynasty, it is vitally necessary that the analysis of overall writing characteristics, taxonomic researches on poems, and studies on the poets. This theses, from above-mentioned three aspects, further carried on a comprehensive and systematic investigation on the base of criticizing and inheriting previous research results.The systematically study on the dancing poems in the Tang Dynasty include the historical roots, backgrounds, overviews of writing, cultural connotations, and artistic achievements. Chapter One retrospect the historical roots of dance culture and dance poems in the Tang Dynasty, and analyzed the effect of dance and writing of dancing poems of different historical stages on those in the Tang Dynasty. The ceremony and music system in the Tang dynasty originated in rites and music culture in the Pre-Qin Dynasty. The poems depicting dance and dancers in Shi Jing and Chu Ci were very valuable to the development of the dancing poems in the Tang Dynasty. Chu dance, as the Chinese traditional aesthetic standards of dance established in the Han Dynasty, affected the aesthetic of the Tang Dynasty. Yue Fu Poems, lyric of ritual dance and Za Wu of the Han and Wei Dynasty were excellent examples of the lyric of dance in Tang Dynasty. The Wei Jin style was the source of the spirit of Tang dynasty dance. Moreover, Yong Wu and Yong Ji Poems in royal style verse of the Nan Dynasty facilitated the development of Yong Wu and Yong Ji Poems of the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, dance in the Tang dynasty completely inherited the Ya Yue system in the Sui Dynasty, thus paying more attention on the development of the common music. The dancing poems in the Sui Dynasty were the prelude to those in the Tang Dynasty.In chapter two, the orchestic and musical perspectives of emperor in the Tang Dynasty were systematically analyzed, and then the effect of the orchestic and musical perspectives of emperor on the writing of the dancing poems in the Tang Dynasty were elaborated. The Tang Dynasty emperor had liberal views about music and dance. They attached great importance to Ya Yue, which endued the music and dance with an important social status. Moreover, they encouraged and supported the development of court Ya Yue and folk music, thus resulted in the whole society are immersed in the extensive artistic atmosphere, which is advantageous to the writing and prosperity of dancing poems. In chapter three, the survey of writing and reasons for boom of dancing poems in Tang Dynasty were examined. The writing of dancing poems continuously developed, and the artistic skills became gradually mature during the Tang Dynasty. Most of the dancing poems in the early period of the Tang Dynasty simply depicted the scene of banquet dance. The content of dancing poems were gradually enriched in the flourishing period of Tang Dynasty. Subsequently, the emergence of many famous poems indicated the middle period of Tang Dynasty is the golden age of the writing of dancing poems. The writing skills and implication of dancing poems in the late Tang Dynasty became mature and profound. According to the analysis of writing of dancing poems, there are many reasons for the prosperity of dancing poems in the Tang Dynasty, such as the developed dance, prevailing banquet and outings, and the intimate relation between intellectuals and prostitutes. Moreover, the huge writer group enable the emergence of large amounts of dancing poems.The cultural connotation of dancing poems in the Tang Dynasty was investigated in chapter four. The dancing poems of the Tang Dynasty contain deep culture connotation, which not only embodied the close connection between music, dance, poems and wine in the Tang Dynasty, but also exhibited female characters. In chapter five, we studied the artistic achievements of dancing poems in the Tang Dynasty. The greatest artistic achievements of dancing poems of Tang Dynasty is that dance rhythm were depicted in the form of poems. Poets were good at describing dance by the most characteristic movements in dance, which exhibited aesthetic feeling of dance. Romantic temperament all throughout is another artistic features of dancing poems in the Tang Dynasty. Strong lyric emotion made the connotation of poems profound. The excellent writing technique further portrayed a group of vivid dancer.In addition, studies on dancing poems in the Tang Dynasty included studies on the specific dances, poems, well-known lyric, and important poets. The themes and artistic features of poems of Ni Chang Yu Yi and Zhe Zhi were firstly analyzed. Poems describing Ni Chang Yu Yi exhibited poets emotions of looking forward to a better life, looking backward to the splendours of the recent past, and complaint of the rise and fall of country. The poems of Zhe Zhi Wu mainly described the beautiful dancers, has no inner resources and sensual tendencies, which is representation of hedonism and sensualism in the middle and later Tang Dynasty society. In chapter seven, we studied some kinds of dance and poems, which are not named after dance music. These dancing poems also recorded many dance, which is a general term for a kind of dance. The name stemmed from the dance movement characteristics or performance forms. Researchers have paid more attention to these dance, but the studies on poems related to these dance is scarce. This thesis analyzed these poems. The poems about Hu Xuan, Hu Teng contained large amounts of information related to dance. The purport of many poems are allegory and revealed attention of the poets to world. The content of Ta Ge was gradually transformed from the appearance of bayadere into the world inside poets. Especially, during the late Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, poems became more emotional. At the same time, Ta Ge has also transformed from the pure dance scene into fabled intention and became a carrier of literati emotion. Although sword dance poems described the appearances of sword dance, sword dance poems had paid more attention to artistic expression of lofty sentiments of Tang People. The poems related to horse dance are rare, but the description of horse dance were very careful.In chapter eight, three important dance music and lyric and Yong Wu Ji poems in the Tang Dynasty were investigated. The development of Bai Zhu CI in the Tang Dynasty is special. Because dance vanished, Bai Zhu CIultimately evolved into an unaccompanied lyric and possess more independent aesthetic value. Yang Liu Zhi is a popular dance in the Tang Dynasty. Most of poems contained a thought of the past and a sense of the rise and fall, others described erotic content. Zhu Zhi Ci mostly chant customs and culture, and is rich in folk culture resources. However, the dance movements were simple, and dances were mostly Ta Ge. Tong Que Tai are representative of Yong Wu Ji poems in the Tang Dynasty. This theses generalized several types of theme of Tong Que Tai, and analyzed the artistic achievements.The important poets of dancing poems in the Tang Dynasty were studied in chapter nine and ten. The dancing poems created by Bai Juyi in different periods were firstly examined. The dancing poems presented different features at different stage of poet life. The orchestic and musical perspectives of Bai Juyi is in coincidence with conventional Confucianism thought, and his poems also paid attention to entertainment. The political function of dance was only exhibited in his early writing named Xin Yue Fu. In most of his dancing poems, Bai Juyi placed greater emphasis on physical and mental pleasure of dance. The dance poems of Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi were almost synchronous. However, the dance poems of Yuan Zhen possessed individual feature. His poems have many descriptive and narrative contents. Yuan Zhen were skillful in metaphor and analogy. The ending of poems were always comments. The features of some poems were frivolous and gorgeous. The dancing poems of Zhang Hu were important materials for study of dance in the Tang dynasty. These dancing poems have recorded many big music and dance activities and amusing stories. In addition, many dance movement, dress and dancers were introduced in his poems. The dancing poems of Wang Jian set against a backdrop of life in the court, expressed the attention to the fate of the court ladies, implicated the plaint on the changing of current affairs, and exhibited profound humanistic feelings. These poems always employed the skill of ode, contained the detailed records of the court life, possessed important historical value.