Ou Yangxiu's Songs Which Showed True Feeling And Had The Trend Of Poems' Peculiarity

Ou Yangxiu was an all-round writer in the North Song Dynasty,and he was good at poems , articles , songs and fugues .Moreover , he was the leaders of the campaign for poems and articles'innovation , and he made the literature of Song Dynasty show new style . In the literature , his major achievement was embodied in the articles , secondly in the poems , finally in the songs. Nevertheless , Ou Yangxiu was still an important person of the songs'world at the beginning of Song Dynasty . As far as the effect , even his songs were equal to his poems .More than half of the songs of Ou Yangxiu work about love and miss between men and women , which aren't in accordance with his poems and articles in which discussed political affairs and worried about country and people. To know this phenomenon better, we should analyze his personality and character, besides combining with temporal literary contempt and social convention. Ou Yangxiu was an person , who place much value on emotion. In his articles we will find he had deep feeling with relations , friends and pupils , and he liked natural scenery. Much affection in real life formed a soulful writer Ou Yangxiu in songs'world . In his gentle songs , Ou Yangxiu unfixed the solemn veil and showed us his true feeling ,who described love and miss , and worried about the rhythm of the seasons . Many women had been portrayed by different ways ,which realized artistic technique's diversification.Not only did the songs of Ou Yangxiu have emotion's character of traditional songs , but also it had new innovation and creation , which was embodied in his songs which had the trend of poems'peculiarity. Ou Yangxiu had many songs which had broken with tradition in content , such as the songs of sighing for official career , the songs of describing natural scenery , the songs of expressing feeling by things, the songs of criticizing realism by history , the songs about the war and frontier , the songs of describing flourishing vision of the cities and so on . As far as the style was concerned , Ou Yangxiu had new creation ,too . Besides traditional gentle styles, the songs of Ou Yangxiu also showed expansive , simple and flyaway styles . Although these styles didn't create new genres , they played an important role during the process. Ou Yangxiu didn't refuse earthliness with the language , however ,he learned from civilian songs daringly and absorbed the languages of sutra and history in his songs. These songs weren't majority , but this showed his spirit of explore about the content , style and language of the songs, which made the songs had the trend of poems'peculiarity , and broke the limit of poems and songs , even lay the foundation for Su Shi's innovation in the future.