On The Odes To Chivalry Written In Tang Dynasty

Chivalrous culture has a long history in China, which has been all the rage at the time since pre-Qin period with wide-ranging sources and complicated components for the purposes of helping the weak and maintaining the justice, not really for living. They do what they like, not so much a particular social group as a social crowd with some peculiarity. The main elements of chivalrousness are temperament and resolute behavior which are not belong to some special rank but related to unique Chinese national characteristics such as in politics, economics, ideology and culture and so on. The development of chivalrousness experienced three stages: paladin, wenxia , and swordsman. It developed gradually from social moralization and ethics into popular cultural sprite about social justice and truism. Its appearance also gave birth to the chivalrous dream of the Chinese literati, knight literature as the ideological foundation for the development, construction for Chinese national spirit with an indelible contribution to China's unique national symbol that has been drawn world attention.In the great Tang dynasty, nation stability, commerce prosperity, the rise of cities, national integration, the first open military exam, popular roaming, and open-minded thinking, all resulted in wide spread of the"injustice spirit". One of the swordsmen is the main line of chivalrousness and chivalrousness can be subdivided into five different groups, namely, powerful swordsman, rich swordsmen, frontier swordsmen, janissary swordsmen, urban swordsmen. A significant feature of this group was helping weak with sword and proud to tour around. They are happily shooting on horse or hunting beasts around the farmland; or drinking with others in the boite; or incensing with bosom friends in brothel; or concealing their real names in urban; or living romantically in rural. They have little social experience with great ambition. Good wine, thoroughbred horses and jade sword are their favorites and became their must, a status symbol, which makes the swordsmen's masculinity well represented. Gradually the young spirit manifest in them as vigorous, energetic and enterprising, active and healthy, suave and romantic, free, cool, and hating evil as their enemy, trustworthy, loyalty to serve the country, unafraid of death. On them, it fully demonstrated the unique social style of Tang Dynasty and romance of youth, publicity of idealism and heroism, which are on behalf of the characteristics of Chinese unique charm and ethos. Tang Dynasty chivalrous poem is a wonderful work in Chinese poetry field, which is produced in the particular social soil in the Tang Dynasty. The ideology conveyed in chivalrous poems has an extremely important position in the construction of the Chinese traditional culture. It is an era of prevailing chivalrousness, so poets about chivalrous in Tang dynasty found a way of life that is enjoying life and pursuing ideal. Chivalrousness is both a way of life and a spiritual need. In the poet's writing, young spirit is synonymous with swordsmen temperament, can be regarded as a kind of aesthetic object, which has become one of the most fashionable and cultural social psychology in the city of Tang Dynasty. Chivalrousness shine in Tang Dynasty, at the same time, connotation and extension of Tang Dynasty chivalrous poems are most broad and contemporary.Based on quantitative and qualitative analysis, this thesis investigates the original culture of Tang Dynasty chivalrous poems with a broad background, from the perspective of sociology, folklore, political science, history and psychology. It also presents cultural connotations of Tang Dynasty chivalrous poems from literary point of view. Chivalrous poems in the Tang Dynasty has a unique aesthetic value and artistic value, especially the"juvenile"Ranger Images, and the good wine, thoroughbred horses, jade sword and so the image of masculinity. This writer will adopt psychological analysis and text interpretation not only emphasizing on Li Bai, Wang Wei and other key poets as a case study, but from the holistic perspective to study chivalrous poetry in poetic interpretation, art inspection and aesthetic contemplation.