Relationship Between Style And Social Backgrounds Of The Southern Dynasties Folk-Song-Styled-Verses

Most of the folk-song-styled-verses in the Southern Dynasties are about passionate love, sorrow absence and yearning between lovers, so the general poetic style of them is flowery diction and sentimental, and it is dubbed as "Love-songs Arouse the Passions".Because of the above-mentioned features, the Southern Dynasties Folk-song-styled-verses have been considered monotonous and deficient in refinement, receiving scant attention. But when we take the special social backgrounds of the Southern Dynasties into consideration, we will find that there is era certainty for the folk-song-styled-verses in that special period to be passionate and effeminate.Before the Wei, Jin, the Northern and Southern dynasties, music is considered an instrument of civilization. But since the Wei Dynasty, the civilization function of music began to be ignored and its entertainment function was been emphasized. Literature broke from the politics and return to its lyrical nature correspondingly. At that time, along with the pursuit of personality, the method that people have seven affections and six desires is accepted. This particular period is also an important time for music development in China. The liking of the popular music became a trend whether in the court or among the common people. Geisha business had been well developed. All the factors mentioned above lead to the flowery diction and sentimental features of the Southern Dynasties Folk-song-styled-verses. It's the result of the special socialbackgrounds and folkways in that time.It is the Southern Dynasties Folk-song-styled-verses, whose content are almost entirely about love, brought a new situation in the history of Chinese literature. Since the teemed of these "Love-songs Arouse the Passions", ancient Chinese literature is no longer only serve politics, but came back to its lyrical essence. Then pure literature in ancient China appeared. Contrast with the phenomenon that literature was a dependency of politics at all the times before, the monotonous and deficient in refinement of the Southern Dynasties Folk-song-styled-verses may be considered an eruption when literature return to its lyrical function after restricted by the utility aim for so long a time. Although this change is a little hypercorrect, but it is actually a natural and inevitable rebound of the lyrical function, which happened when literature developed to some certain degree and need to breakthrough by itself.And the five-character-four-sentence structure of the Southern Dynasties Folk-song-styled-verses influenced the study of temperament and form in the Qi, Liang dynasties, also the Tang Dynasty's Quatrains and Song Lyrics. The development of the lyrical literature in latter age benefited much from it, too.So this paper starts with the features of the Southern Dynasties folk-song-styled-verse, and then analyzes them with history, aesthetics, music, and geography views, taking the social backgrounds of that time into account. At last it reaches the conclusion that there is era certainty for the Southern Dynasties Folk-song-styled-verses to be passionate and effeminate, and point out the Southern Dynasties Folk-song-styled-verses have keying action and play an important role in the development of Chinese classical literature. It gives special emphasis on the impacts which geisha girls have on the folk-song-styled-verses in that period, pointing out that while the popularity of the folk-song-styled-verses accelerated the development of geisha business; geisha girls impel it to get more popular. Geisha girls not only sang and produced more folk-song-styled-verses, but also came to be important content of the verses written by poets. They have important influence on the Southern Dynasties Folk-song-styled-verses.