Research On Dragon Boat Festival Tiezici Of The Song Dynasty

Tiezici is a kind of new literary style which was wrote by the Academicians andused during the first days of Spring begins and Dragon Boat Festival, often in form offive-word and seven-word. It appeared and prolificed in the Song Dynasty. This papercontents its background of happening, contents,styles, changement etc.From Six Dynasties to Song Dynasty, Dragon Boat Festival experienced the stageof emergence, development and mature. The habits and customs of festivals were thecondition of Tiezici. The Academical stytem of Song Dynasty followed Tang Dynasty,and the Academicians were famours and enjoyed more and more attention. Thecontents words styles of the Tiezici were depended on the identity of its author, thepattern of its creation, the occasion of its useage.There are several different contents of Tiezici. First of all, as poemes for festival,they described the conventions such as foods, activities. At the same time, the life ofthe emperor and his family in the palace, which always followed best wishes andbeautiful compliment, were recored by the poet. Academicians were not only poets butalso the ministers who worked for the emperor. It was their responsibility to givingadvice to construct the country, which became a part of the contents.The feature of Tiezici were not always the same in different periods. At thebegining of Earlier Song Dynasty, Tiezici came into being, the identity of author wasnot limited to be Academician and the language style was single. The period ofOuyangXiu, SuShi and other person like them was the golden time of Tiezici. Theywere more weighty and informative than before. Tiezici at this stage were the mostvaluable works and they owned the highest appraisement undoutedly. During the lastdays of the Northern Song, Tiezici had not been enriched, but became more and moreboring. It was reasonable for some critics to describe it as poemes like Palace Poem.War was the overriding issure of the Southern Song Dynasty, the creation of Tiezicihad been interrupted by the war for years. On the whole, beautiful words, normativeformats, reduplicate allusions and single topics were the main characteristics ofTiezici.Tiezici was not only the consuetudinary words but also literary works, whichplayed an important part in the history of Palace Literature. They reflected some usefulinformation about the emperor’s life, the custom on Dragon Boat Festival, even something about the poet’s creation and experience. More or less, they are valuable forthe research on history and literature nowadays. Whats more, the mode of setting thetone for well-wishing have had far-reaching impacts on the writing of couplets,especially the couplets for festivals.