The Brief Study Of The Plum Blossom Image In Song Lyrics

It is the noble character and the simple charm of the Plum flower that is loved and revered by the literati in the Song dynasty. The people in the Song dynasty express some kind of life experience, feelings or place their own ideas through praising the Plum Blossom. The Plum Blossom becomes a carrier of the literati in the Song dynasty expressing mood, and it embodies the culture and aesthetic fashion of the Song dynasty. Based on the poems of Plum word and summary of the relevant literature in the Song dynasty, the paper analyzes and discusses the basic situation of creation, the reasons of prosperity Plum word, and the emotional category and connotation, and the content of poems of Plum and the folk culture and so on. The main contents of the paper are in the following: the first, the tradition of the literature and the origin of the culture. In the history of literature, the art of praising Plum has a long history, and experienced the beginning period of the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, the consciousness of six dynasties period, the developing of Sui and Tang dynasties and the booming time of the Song dynasty. The second is the basic situation of poems of Plum in the Song dynasty. It is including the definition of the concept, quantity and types, the reasons of prosperity. The third is the emotional category and connotation of the poems of the Song dynasty. The vigorous branches, crosswise shadow, extremely elegant flower, magnificent design and color, the meaningful fragrance, fragrant with proud and strong character, and tenacious, contended for the human’s all kinds of characteristics and emotions, and embodies the firmness of Pursuing the meaning of life and aesthetic taste. The fourth is the poems of Plum and the folk culture. The poems of Plum is closely related with the folk culture, and it directely expresses the spiritual life of the poets. For instance, to celebrate one’s birthday with the Plum Blosom, because of its "longevity" and "firm" characteristics which is metaphor to wealth and good luck, forever; burn the Plum to resurrection the noble soul; the Plum adornment, it was very popular in the Song dynasty, since the Shou Yang princess made-up with the plum. It is the plum blossom that the people in the Song dynasty like to make-up with to show their elegant and beautiful character.