Research On Song Lian's Rites And Music Thought

Song Lian,named as Shou early,with courtesy name of Jinglian and literary name of Qianxi,was born in Jinhua,Zhejiang,a litterateur and historian in turning of Yuan and Ming Dynasty,honored as the “Big Three Poets in Early Ming Dynasty” with Liu Ji and Gao Qi,and named as “Four Masters in East Zhejiang” with Zhang Yi,Liu Ji and Ye Chen.Song Lian's learning was wide,profound and immense.He was loyalty and dared to speak bluntly when he took power in the royal court.He had been appointed as prince squire,senior discussion official and other official posts,who was praised as “First Civilian Official During Founding of State” by Zhu Yuanzhang,Taizu of Ming.At the second year of Hongwu,Song Lian received the order of Taizu Emperor to compile and edit History of the Yuan Dynasty,besides,he had participated in the establishment of rites and music system in Ming Dynasty.As the adjudicator of history book of a dynasty,Song Lian's rites and music thought had made extremely important contribution for the formation and confirmation of rites and music system in Ming Dynasty and development of Chinese rites and music system.Song Lian's thought of rites and music has a wide range of contents,which is contained in many literary works and has rich theoretical research value.Through analyzing Song Lian's literature works and then refining the connotation of Song Lian's rites and music thought,influence of his rites and music thought on rites and music system in Ming Dynasty had been analyzed,which could provide assistance for promoting traditional culture of rites and music in our country and academic theory research of Song Lian himself,meanwhile,it could also provide new thoughts for theory research on East Zhejiang literati group and plate of Zhejiang music history.Research of this article based on Song Lian's rites and music thought as the research object,through arrangement and analysis on historical accounts of Song Lian,the theory research on contents of his rites and music thought was explored.Main research methods included literature research method and historical research method.In structure,this thesis is constituted by introduction and four parts.The introduction part mainly centers on this article to select the topic,aiming to introduce the reason,significance,object summary,methods,innovation points of research on Song Lian's rites and music thought.The first part of the text mainly introduces Song Lian's life and the origin of her thought of rites and music.The second part briefly expounds the specific connotation of Song Lian's thought of rites and music.The third part cascaded the development history of rites and music system in our country and then conducted theory analysis on relationship between Song Lian's rites and music thought and rites and music system in Ming Dynasty.The fourth part mainly discussed the historical influences produced by Song Lian's rites and music thought.