The Aesthetic Characteristics Of Tujia Love Songs

This paper attempts to analyze the aesthetic characteristics of the tujia love songsin three respects: the beauty of emotion, image and language.The first chapter studies on “the beauty of emotion”. tujia love songs may seemsto be simple, straight and countrified, in fact, we can appreciate the genuine,straightforward and rusticity of tujia ethnic from its features I mention above.“Simpleness” gives you a sense of elegance;“straightforwardness” makes you feel thepure spirit of the singer. Its vulgar lyric gives you a sense of endless true love betweenyoung couples. The shift of the love and scene contained in the tujia love songsdispplays the endless sense of beauty. The love songs start form the traditionalsacrifice songs. We can find out the original source of tujia love songs by comparingthe love songs and traditional sacrifice songs.The second chapter study on“the beauty of image”. In this chapter, I focus on thebeauty of the singer by comparing the difference between the male singer and femalesinger. The tujia female was long considered as kind and humble. They have no rightto choose their marriage and have no way to fight back. Therefore, the songs they singwhile getting married has became the very opportunity to express their true feeling.By studying on the Kujia songs we can appreciate aesthetic of tujia female forgenerations. The tujia male was known as brave, diligent and rusticity, the beauty oftheir heart is shown in the songs they sing for their lover.In the final chapter I attempt to analyze the beauty of language in tujia songs intwo respects: the beauty of rhetoric and cadence. The lyric of tujia songs is just liketelling a story. It seems to be short and straight, but we can taste the beauty from ourheart. It shows the national characteristics of tujia ethnic directly. The way tujiapeople sing their song is special and epic, which give you a fantastic sense of beauty.Give you a fantastic sense of beauty.