The Poetry Intension And Direction Of "Composing Ci As Poetry

"Composing Ci as Poetry" is a proposion of Ci category. The paper tries to go further into and expounds the proposition under the background of poetry cultural psychology. Ci emerged and developed in the enviroment of music and literature. It aiso involes the social environment and aesthetic mentality of the times. So, "composing Ci as Poetry" not only is a composing technigue, but also a cultural phenomenon. Two points are involved in the "Poetry": poem mind and poem skill, equally important. The idea of "composing Ci as Poetry" sets up a thinking way which connects the poetic aesthetic mentality with Ci spiritical construction. By this way , we can make a thorough understanding about the essence of " composing Ci as Poetry". It shows that the development of Ci which came from folk has restrained and formulated by the poetry rational spirit The paper has three sections. The first section discusses two levels of relation between the idea of "composing Ci as Poetry" and the poetry cultural psychology of the Song Dynasty.The discussion begins with the account of the idea which exchanged in terms of poetic psychology; then, because Ci composer who consisted of the literati and officialdom was poet also, their aesthetic ideal changes from "simple as beauty" to "elegant and honest".It reflects the development of Ci cultural psychology. The second section describes that the study of Ci and Poetry had a coexistent developmental momentum. The third section sorts out the developmental veins of Ci in view of the direction of the idea of" composing Ci as Poertry", which is just the literature and historical sibnificance of the idea.