Research On The Three Gorges Poetry In The Song Dynasty

In the Song Dynasty, a large number of poets took part in the creation of the Three Gorges poems, which contained rich quantity,and made new progress in the aspects of content form, artistic techniques and cultural connotation.The poems of the Three Gorges in Song Dynasty had a wider range of content than that in Tang Dynasty. Based on the experience of the former poets,scholars in Song Dynasty dug deep into the themes of the Three Gorges poems.The literati in Song Dynasty enjoyed and sang fully about the magnificent scenery of the Qutang Gorge,Wu Gorge and Xiling Gorge.Song people enriched the artistic image of the Wushan goddess,which was the symbol of the myth in the Three Gorges district. They also reproduced artistically many historical sites,including the main Three Kingdoms ruins Kuizhou Baidicheng and The Stone Sentinel Maze,the former residences of three celebrities Qu Yuan,Song Yu and Wang Zhaojun in Zigui County.When it came to ethnic customs,poets in Song Dynasty paid more attention to the daily life of common people,and focused on the reflection of people sufferings,which embodied their thought of people's livelihood and people-oriented.The Three Gorges poems in Song Dynasty were abundant in artistic techniques and more detailed in description,which showed more rationality and less taste or feelings.Song people generally lengthened their poems,used more burdensome argumentation and less lyrical language.The poems of the Three Gorges in Song Dynasty combined an aesthetic mood of romantic melancholy of the previous generations with the special atmosphere of rational thinking in Song Dynasty.So they,often displayed a unique flavor of rational reasoning with a slight sentiment.The familiar images in the Three Gorges poems,such as mountains,water,rainclouds over Wushan,the Three Gorges ape. and stone,had gradually been mature in Song Dynasty.The two important images "Rainclouds over Wushan" and "Three Gorges ape" became the classical cultural symbols in the history of Chinese literature.The two special poetic styles "Wushangao" and "Zhuzhici",which were basically shaped by people in Tang Dynasty,developed further in Song Dynasty and showed some new features.For example,Song people had mixed new perspectives and elements with deep reasoning thoughts and ideas in their poems.The Three Gorges poems were clearly marked with the imprint of the regional culture of Ba and Chu.The Three Gorges poems in the Song Dynasty are a mixture of history and reality,the past and the future.The poets in Song Dynasty recombined their own aesthetic experience with the beautiful scenery of the Three Gorges,and developed a deep rational observation of landscape culture.The unique relegation culture of the Three Gorges district made new breakthroughs in Song Dynasty with the help of Kou Zhun and Ou Yangxiu,which originated from Qu Yuan and developed by Li Bai and Du Fu.The overall tone of Three Gorges relegation culture in Song Dynasty had been turned into calmness,steadiness and positiveness from the initial state of indignation and negativeness, presenting a new atmosphere of reason and wisdom.