Research On The Folk Culture Of Wu Area In Late Ming Dynasty Based On Gua Zhier And Shan Ge

Edited by the famous writer Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty,Gua Zhier and Shan Ge were systematic folk song albums in Chinese history and were very popular in late Ming Dynasty.He considers the process of compiling folk songs as an effective way to spread their folklore ideas.In Song for mountains,he establishes the idea that "there may be false poems,but no false folk songs" and the purpose of inventing the religious fake drugs by means of describing the true love between man and woman,emphasizing the cultural and social function of folk songs.In the first chapter,the author analyzes the influence of political decline and economic and cultural development on folk songs in the late Ming Dynasty,and analyzes the environment of times of the two works.Then,the relationship between Feng Menglong and Wu folk culture is introduced,which lays foundation for the latter contents.In the second chapter,the author analyzes the compilation thoughts and methods of the two works.Then the author focuses on auxiliary words,overlapping and suffix as well as their relationship with Feng Menglong's compilation thoughts.The third chapter of this paper,as the core content,illustrates the folk life and folk beliefs of Wu area,in which a large number of folk customs well reflect the social life and folk culture of Wu area in late Ming Dynasty.Through the analysis of the background,characteristics of Wu language,expression techniques and the folk life and folk beliefs shown in the works,we can understand Feng Menglong's view of popular literature dominated by "sentimental education" and the social life of Wu area in the late Ming Dynasty,so as to further explore the rich folk culture of it.