A Study On The Influence Of English Folk Song Books On Zhou Zuoren's Folk Song Concept

Zhou Zuoren is a scholar,writer and translator.In the 20 's,Zhou Zuoren,as a scholar,had a new understanding of folk songs,and he collected and sorted folk songs,which made an important contribution to the development of ballad sports.The introduction is divided into two parts.First,it combs the research related to Zhou Zuoren's folk song concept,including the related research of Zhou Zuoren's participation in ballad movement,and secondly,combs the research status of English folk songs.The main body includes four chapters: The first chapter discusses the reasons why Zhou Zuoren pays attention to folk songs,not only because of the sincere and touching of folk songs themselves,but also because of the view of local folklore,which is fundamentally concerned with the attention of the people,the closeness to the livelihood and the view of the destiny of the nation.What is more important is the urgent need of "break new ground" in the "May Fourth" period for new literary resources and academic resources,and Zhou Zuoren's recognition of the needs of this era.The second subsection classifies the English folk songs books that Zhou Zuoren has read.The second chapter,from the folk song boundary and the origin aspect examines the English folk song book brings to him the influence.Zhou Zuoren poured the definition of folk songs by western scholars into the word "ballad" of ancient,so that "ballad" not only retained the local characteristics,but also had a new connotation of the times.Although Chinese and English folk songs are the product of folk,but the specific creation is different.The third chapter examines the influence of English folk song books on the classification and artistic characteristics of folk songs.In the collection of folk songs,Zhou Zuoren drew on the research methods of the human school and put forward the "six points method" of folk songs.Chinese and English folk songs have many commonalities in artistic features,which is not only the commonness of folk songs as Folk art,but also it is not difficult to see the influence of these English folk song books on Zhou Zuoren.The fourth chapter examines the influence of English folk song books on the value of folk songs.Western scholars have discovered the literary value,pedagogy value and folklore value of English folk songs,which gave Zhou Zuoren great inspiration,Zhou Zuoren collected and sorted Chinese folk songs,and also made a new theoretical explanation of the value of Chinese folk songs from these three angles.