On The Go Activities In The Poems Of Tang And Song Dynasties

The Chinese Go's literary writing started from Dong Han Dynasty(BC25-220),after the consistent improvement by Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties(222-589), Sui (581-618)and Tang (618-907)Dynasties, and reached its heyday after middle Tang Dynasty finally.At the beginning of Tang Dynasty, Chinese Go comes to become the subject of chanting. Go Fu(?),represented by the five Fu and three Lun(????),whose theme from focusing on the utility of Go to emphasize its taste, shows the worship for skills, and the spirit of martial art. During Tang and Song period, Go was popular among men of letter, for which many relevant aesthetic activities were introduced.Those activities weaken its competitive nature.On the basis of the accumulation of previous literature, the trend of dense of hunman images, and the popularity of Chinese Go among men of letter, Tang and Song poems of describing Go presented a boom.The Go serving as materials of the poems, the number of the poems about it increase rapidly from the middle Tang, and its writing became more complicated during the Northern Song and the Southern Song, presenting some characteristics from the perspectives of details and life. The literal image of Tang's Go, from the symbolic of wisdom to the pleasure for forests and spring(reclusion pleasure), shows the change of aesthetic point, and also the change of ideal personality of men of letter from being smart to be a recluse. As the change of aesthetic point from the process to the mind, the poems about the Go are divided into two groups. One kind is focused on competition, while another kind emphasizes the state of mind and its pleasure. Thus,Song's poem of the Go presents an utter different theme. On the one hand,the understanding of this game is critical and transcendental; on the another hand,focusing on the game feeling of joy, emphasizing the transcendence of the game itself.In Song dynasty , the aesthetic image of Go was not a game, and the literature meaning weaken its competitive nature. Reclusion thoery permeated into its writing gradually. During this developing process, the game of Go turned to literati stylization,and its spirit of martial faded away.The change of aesthetic attention rained influence on the feelings, impressions,tastes and concept of Go, and the unique of quietness and the beauty of lonelyness are gradually established. The meaning of the Lanke(??) allusion was fully excavated,leading to a result that the Go symbol meaning narrowed to that life is a short illusion.Qinqishuhua(????), as an abbreviation for 4 fancies of literati (lyre-playing, Go,Calligraphy, Painting), appeared in the Song dynasty. This word marked the literati stylization of the Go. However,the literati put their refined taste of Go to women's physical beauty enjoyment, which has sow the seeds of the secularization of Qinqishuhua.