Song Poetry And The Dragon Boat Festival

The paper takes the poetry about the Dragon Boat Festival in Song Dynasty as the research content; analyses images of festival objects, cultural significance, emotional orientation, and the psychological motivation of poetic creation about the Dragon Boat Festival in Song Dynasty from the perspective of poetry; reveals poetry's artistic characteristics and emotional connotation by combining the characteristics of the times and poet's experiences.Beginning from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, Dragon Boat Festival has more than two thousand years'history. Song Dynasty is the most important period in which different festival objects and festival customs becomes material. And the poetry in Song Dynasty eulogizes completely the festival images and the meaning of festival customs related to the Dragon Boat Festival. The poetry in Song Dynasty not only describes the colorful festival images but also places deep emotional feelings in it—expressing emotions through describing concrete objects and sighing poet's life with a great sorrow or memorizing the sages. This is because of the elegance of people in Song Dynasty. They play, sing and dance every day to enjoy their life, paying no attention to affairs of human life, and they are just content to retain sovereignty over a part of the country. This is also because their lofty aspirations aren't realized; they cherish the old time but grieve the present; and miss their native country deeply.The tight combination between the civil festival objects' images and poet's emotion gives poetry about Dragon Boat Festival a fresh and leisurely artistic conception. Numbered types of festival customs and civil festival atmosphere form the character of the plain language in the poetry. Qu Yuan's spirit, beautiful flowers and green grass all give the Dragon Boat Festival poetry in Song Dynasty a remotely emotional expression.