Han Costa Study

The dissertation takes Singing-poetry of Han (汉代歌诗) as its object of study, and makes a systematical study as a whole. The main purpose of this dissertation lies in expounding the facts of history, making a thorough inquiry of its origins and development, describing its living conditions. The dissertation includes three sections.Section One: Regional distribution of Singing-poetry of HanIt inspects the name of Singing-poetry (歌诗) in the view of etymology summarizes a general situation of Singing-poetry of Han. It divides Folk Singing-poetry (民间歌诗) into different of regions in the view of cultural geography, Then inspects its origin and development. It discusses the relationship between Singing-poetry and region, the influence of regional culture tradition on Singing-poetry, the stylistic diversity of different regional Singing-poetry ,the relationship between the mount of Singing-poetry and cultural tradition and so on.Chapter One: The name of "Singing-poetry" and Singing-poetry of Han. It differentiates and analyzes the name of "Song"(歌) and "Poem"(诗) pre-Han, the relationships between "song" and "Singing-poetry" during the Han Dynasty. It also relates the simple creating situation of Singing-poetry of Han.Chapter Two: The region of Folk Singing-poetry. It mainly inspects Folk Singing-poetry in the view of regional culture, the way of how it be created and accepted in different of regional culture condition.Chapter Three: Chu Singing-poetry of Han(汉代楚歌诗)-It takes Chu Singing-poetry (楚歌诗) as its object of study, inspects its relationship in the view of regional culture tradition, reveals its history of occurring and developing, expounding its status and influence in the history of Chinese Ancient Literature.Section Two: Musical culture and Singing-poetry of HanIt describes the musical activities during the Han Dynasty, and reveals its living conditions and cultural background in the view of social culture. First, we inspect its historical origins from the historical traditions before the Han Dynasty. Second, we discuss its relationships between musical institutes and Singing-poetry. Third, we inquire into its relationships between Singing-poetry and cultural activities of palace & folk's offering sacrifices to gods or ancestors, banquet activities.Chapter Four: The tradition of Singing-poetry pre-Han. It mainly inspects relationships among poem -, music % song and dance. The tradition of Singing-poetry is between scholars and folk-people pre-Han.Chapter Five: Yue-fu (乐府) of Han and Singing-poetry of Han. It discusses musical institutes pre-Han and its functions, then discusses its creation, construction and evolution, the musical activities of Yue-fu and Singing-poetry'swriting and so on.Chapter Six: Upper strata's musical activities and Singing-poetry. It mainly reveals its living conditions in the upper strata during the Han Dynasty.Chapter Seven: Lower strata's musical activities and Singing-poetry. It mainly reveals its living conditions in the lower strata during the Han Dynasty.Section Three: Musical category and Literary characteristics ofSinging-poetry of HanIt mainly inspects its version's being and classification in the view of musical culture, not relates to its technical operation. Then discusses its literature meaning in the view of literature and art.Chapter Eight: Musical categories of Singing-poetry of Han. It inspects its musical categories in the view of developing history, and reveals its historical procession of falling into a pattern step by step. It also inspects the name of each musical category, patterns of musical performance, and main contents and so on.Chapter Nine: Cultural meaning of Singing-poetry of Han. It mainly reveals the cultural spirit of Folk Singing-poetry, discusses its culture meaning of Ritual Singing-poetry(仪式歌诗) by studying Singing-poetry works.Chapter Ten: Literary characteristics of Scholar Singing-poetry (文人歌诗) .It mainly inquires into sorrowful characteristics and the cause of un...