Research On Monody In Pre-song Dynasty

This paper is mainly about the research on the development of monody in the pre-Qin to the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, and further study was put into this subject comprehensively. This paper is composed by the introduction and four chapters which includes 18 sections.The text of this paper is more than seventy thousand words, about one hundred thousands words in total.Introduction is mainly about some basic researches.First, the historical origin of the word monody was verified, and the more scientific definition of monody was given to its standard form and variant form. The relationship between monody and other funeral poetry was considerately analyzed. Then the literary value and cultural value of monody was expounded.The first three chapters is mainly about the background of monody'development and the research and discussion of its creation circulation in ancient China from the Qin to the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties period. It includes 14 sections which divided into three chapters.First, the behavior of emperor laid the ideological foundation for emergence of poetry in the future generations, and opened a new era of monody. In Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, "famous article as benchmark" emerged while the overall style was "Tragic as beauty" in that period. This slowly leaded monody stepping into the stable development period after the peak starting point. There were lots of famous monody in Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties period, Wei Yingwu, Yuan Zhen, Li Shang-yin, Li Yu and other great poets wrote such delicate strokes between husband and wife with love and emotion, so that monody showed unparalleled beauty.This study started from "Book of Songs" in the Pre-Qin Dynasty's.Firstly, the three most controversial "monody" were researched in depth about the background and quality of them, to make sure if they are the origin of ancient monody in china. After certification, the three poems in "The Book of Songs" were the origin of monody was excluded, but the art form of "The Book of Songs" which paid attention to detail and sensitivity of subjective had a great impact to monody in the future generations. In the Qin and Han dynasties, with the centralized autocratic system of government established and the strengthening of the rule of Confucianism, in addition to the emperor as a dictator could be other than arbitrary, including the upper classes people suffered a lot in the spirit of the individual or the more stringent constraints, so that emperor's free creation and preferences offered an opportunity for the future generations.Late Han Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties period, the people's awakening began, literature had also begun to enter a conscious era. Since the Emperor Wu of western Han Dynasty's "Mrs.Lee Song," provide a new performance theme for literature and art, the monody wrote by Pan showed a perfect revealation. At that time, the art form of monody were becoming more and more mature because of the special background of the times and poets who made a conscious creation, and the content of monody was also separated from colloquial form but filled in the sincere affection between husband and wife. However, after Pan the creation of monody had tended to ordinary and slowly fell into the stereotype.Nevertheless, they laid a solid foundation for the emergence of great poems in Tang and Five Dynasties.Sui and Tang dynasties ended China's long-standing division condition, forming a unified country situation. In particular, the Tang Dynasty's economic prosperity, national flourishing, open-minded and the North-South culture, Sino-foreign cultural exchange actively, a variety of arts form had been an unprecedented development at that time. As a top representative of Tang Dynasty' art forms, Tang poetry exuded youthful energy and permanent charm.Under such a big situation, the development of monody also demonstrated its enduring charming. In particular, Wei Yingwu, Yuan Zhen, Li Shang-yin, Li Yu and other distinguished poets involved in this area, they made lots of famous monody, and pushed the quality of monody into the peak of development.After the first three chapters of combing and analysis, the fourth chapter is mainly about overall impression and research of monody. The background, art style and impact of monody were mainly focused. Such as discussing the relationship between the poet's experience and monody creation, the summary of the two main themes of monody, and new discoveries of the cultural background and its impact on marriage and etc.Finally, art features and impact of monody in pre-Song dynasty were comprehensively summarized from two aspects of pre-Song poets and aesthetic values.