The Theory About DaoQing Poetry's Change And Historical Development

As a kind of religious art, in its long history, DaoQing Poetry has developed from poetry about immortals and ZhenRen to Taoist YueFu poetry and encomiastic intone, then reach the highest peak of Secularization in Tang Dynasty. In this process, it has reiteration, and also exception. It doesn't follow the unchangeable regulation; it also matches to the characteristic of ideology development. In DaoQing Poetry's complicated and confusing change history, we can still look for its total development trend of the Secularization and art inbeing return.This text is divided into three parts altogether. In the first part, the introduction brings the concept of " DaoQing Poetry ", expatiates simply the resonant relationship between Taoism and Poetry, the unique value of DaoQing Poetry of Tang Dynasty, and looks back some academic researches interrelated. The second part traces back to the origin of DaoQing Poetry and its historical development. The third part of conclusion, I analyses the characteristic and the deep culture significance of DaoQing Secularization.The second part is the center of the total text, which divided into three chapters:Chapter 1 mainly defined the concept of "DaoQing Poetry", analyses it as the religious art and the literature form in order to eliminate the misapprehension on "DaoQing Poetry" concept's extension and connotation.Chapter 2 traces back to the origin of DaoQing Poetry in ChuCi of the Warring States Period and ZhenRen Poetry of the Qin Dynasty, to look for the two traditions of poetry about immortals: "the immortal purport" and " the chant to express one's feelings". In the earlier period of DaoQing Poetry history, the Poems naturally includes the immoral poetry and Taoist YueFu which imbue with Taoist thoughts, even have many purport of the immortal. As the naissance of Taoism, DaoQing Poetry exhibited more varieties, and already has presented the inkling of Secularization originally. Especially, three Cao (CaoCao, CaoPi and CaoZhi) initiated the humanities tradition of immortal poetry: chant to express one's feelings, affected the future generations development of the DaoQing Poetry deeply.Chapter 3 mainly analyses the deep social reasons of its Secularization by the types and characteristics of DaoQing Poetry in Tang Dynasty, and contacts the socialization of Taoism with the esthetic art essence, to provide the new proof for the theory of religious Secularization.The third part of conclusion evaluates reasonably the Secularization of DaoQing Poetry.