Study On The Social Customs In JingXiang Area In Southern Dynasty——Comprehending The Xiqu Song

Xiqu Song is regarded as Jinchu musical songs which were generated in the middle area of Yangtze River and Hanjiang river basin in Southern Dynasty. Most of the songs were produced during Song,Qi,Liang generations, and they were popular in the areas of Jingzhou,Zhongxiang,Xiangfan in today’s Hubei province, Deng county in today’s Henan province. Xiqu Song are included in the sections from49-49in Yuefu Poems Collection. It represents the highway achievement of Jingchu folk songs,and had been widely loved by all orders of society.Jingxiang is a vast and fertile area, a good natural and geographical conditions cultivate the gentle,quite personalities and romantic emotion of the local people.The land and water traffic in this area constitute a very advanced transportation system, making it as an important traffic hub. This place had played a very important role in goods transportation and thus contributed a lot to the economy and urban development in Southern Dynasty.The generation and spreading center of Xiqu Song is the Jingxiang Area.This area is at a very suitable geographic location.Cultural characteristics and social customs gave birth to the civil folk tune. Xiqu Song has very distinctive local characteristics, Xiqu is the representative of the love songs which were shining in Southern Dynasty.The language of Xiqu Song are spontaneous, most of the content reflects the love feeling between men and women. Besides that,it also reflects the prosperity of urban commercial trade, the lives of urban residents, the joy and sorrow feelings between merchants and sommelieres, dissolute luxury of the aristocracy and the upper classes, the hardships of the working people; It also reflects the open, warlike, noveletish mood of society in the JingZhou area in Southern Dynasty, and the characteristic folk customs, habits in the JingChu area. From the descriptions in Xiqu Songs, you can get a glimpse of the social material production, commerce activities in urban areas, the lives of local people,social customers,value orientation and other social realities in Souther dynasty. The rulers’preferences and participations in the creation, as well as the Jingxiang region’s natrual conditions, traffic environment, economic factors, social customers and many other elements which contributed to Xiqu Songs’birth and development, promoted its spreading and made it reach the peak of prosperity.The birth and prosperity of "Xiqu Song" greatly improved the variety of the contents, giving people more poetic themes to express their personal living experience, to describe social customers and other social realities."Xiqu Song" contributed a lot to the development of poems, representing the great wisdom and art creativity of the ancient chinese people, and it also provides lots of evidence which can be used for the study of social economy, culture and customs in Southern Dynasty.