Research On The Urban Folk Life In Bianliang City Of The Northern Song Dynasty From " Reminiscence Of The Eastern Capital"

“Reminiscence of the Eastern Capital” was written by the Northern SongDynasty adherents Mengyuanlao,it was a city notes novel which memoried theEastern capital of the past and described the custom and the bustling urban life style.Because of it described the real living colorful customs in the capital of the NorthernDynasty, it stared the writing of the city style notes novel, it affected the written “AMemory of the Bianliang City”“Tales of the Old” which were written in theSouthern Song Dynasty. And with its precious historical literature value, it becomesan indispensable treasure of Chinese urban history, folklore history, culture history,thereby it exposed to extensive attention form Chinese literature, history, folklore,academics and many scholars. This article chooses the“Reminiscence of the EasternCapital” as the research object, from the perspective of folklore, the use of folkculture, urban folklore and culture anthropology theory, combined with the literatureresearch methodology. Through to the analysis and research of the original, theselection of Bianliang city people of urban folk life class, material and spiritual fielefolk combining research arguments, the original analytical described in folklore andceremony as specific process, a systematic analysis of the Bianliang expounds thecharacteristics of urban folk life and their containing folk culture connotation. Thisarticle mainly from the following five aspects to study the Bianliang city peopleclass of folk life in the Northern Song Dynasty.The Northern song dynasty was in Chinese feudal society connecting linkbetween the preceding and the reform period, the commodity economy for hugedevelopment, it made the city scale expanded and status were becoming more andmore important, and became a prominent change of our country’s city history. Firstof all, on generating Bianliang city of urban folk social environment, this papermainly introduces the five dynasties period hardship-chanting genre, Jianghuaieconomic rise and reform the heart, the rise of city Bianliang achievements andincreasingly prosperous. Population increase, and produced the townsfolk and thenproduced unique urban folk life. Especially discusses, Mengyuanlao wrotethe“Reminiscence of the Eastern Capital” of the folk consciously psychology.Because of its in the real, simple, consciously folk psychology under the creation,that the“Reminiscence of the Eastern Capital” become true of the northern songdynasty study in history and the urban folk life precious literature. Next Bianliangcity of analytical the people’s food, dress and business customs in some specificthings like folk custom, we can find: Bianliang city people’s diet custom, is in the Northern Song Dynasty, the diet culture visual performance. The development of theNorthern Song Dynasty urban food folk custom, is human instinct to their own dietof a high level of rational development. The dres of the Northern Song Dynasty withstrong class-consciousness.. Clothing also affected by the influence of people’saesthetic view by the influence of all aspects of life such as climate, workingconditions and so on. The city in the Song Dynasty has been broken through thelimits of the Tang Dynasty, fang, significant economic function, businessmanagement and competition in all the characteristics of the industry basis, formtheir own business customs. Again, mainly discusses the original about life of thebirth of marriage, in the period of the Chicago. In the Northern Song Dynasty, thebirth of the complex and marriage etiquette accumulated behind the social mentalitynonplussed, containing different cultural significance and function: as to the publicthe good news that marry, have children, protection from evil new intrusion, newlymarried couples and new life and good wishes and pray that, etc. Fourth, in theNorthern Song Dynasty, not only to the traditional festival to be inherited the old,processing and repair; At the same time continuously develop new festival. From themain content of the festival analysis, can be stated in the age of the Song Dynasty isdivided into farming and sacrifice holiday, memorial day holiday, celebrated, socialamusement holiday five categories. And some of the sacrifice holiday from folkactivities and fete ceremony sums up the city people Bianliang folk customs andbeliefs. Finally, points out that the Northern Song Dynasty study of urban folkcultural history for the construction of the inevitable folk customs, the more help tocontemporary urban folk origin of the research, to carry out to promote the positiveeffects. From the Angle of folklore and the “Reminiscence of the Eastern Capital”asa folk custom and the advantages and disadvantages of walled cities, described tomodern and contemporary folk custom annals of scholars works as a reference whenalso ponder the and described.The introduction of four chapters, conclusions and references, the text is about50,000words.