The Tentative Discussion Of "the Shuixiang Melody" In The Poems Of Tang Dynasty

"The Shuixiang melody is one kind of unique subject of Tang poems, which originated from the fork songs in the banks of the Changjiang River and the Yellow River, including The Book of Odes, The lyrics of Chu, YueFu of Han Dynasty. But its direct origin was the fork songs of Southern and Northern Dynasties. Because of the political stability and the country's powerful capabilities in the Tang Dynasty, poets began to pay more attention to the sweet and happy affection of male and female. Furthermore, the literators of Tang Dynasty learned from the fork songs consciously, which showed the trend of combination between the poems of literators and folk songs in that era, thus the poetry in Tang Dynasty developed in a broad way. In content, "The Shuixiang melody" mainly shows the landscapes of Jiangnan Shuixiang and describes the beauty of girls who were picking up lotus and the pursuit of romance of them; in style, it is exquisite and euphemistic, and it has strong local flavor; in form, the melody always adopts the style of folk songs that is in five words and four sentences structure, and it has rich natural charm; in art, it widely uses comparison, partial tone and double meaning in order to shape the beauty of repeating and overlapping; in language using, the spoken language was inserted into the poetry to show the climate and fork-customs. The paper discusses "The Shuixiang melody"under the background of Tang Dynasty, it has strong life features and local colors, and tries to probe its source, the reasons of prosperity and the effect on the following generations, in this way, it is regarded as a reflection of enriched social life in Tang Dynasty.