Song-Ci And Feasting Entertainments

The paper will explore Songci from the point of view of feasting, taking the developing process of feasting culture as longitude and taking the social culture of Song Dynasty as latitude. We will study the dynamic total feasting activities and the mutual relationship between feasting activities and Ci-poetry. Further, we will analyze the function of feasting on the style formation of Ci-poetry,the effect on the function of communication, entertainment and on emotional lyric. There are five chapters in this paper:Chapter one, Trace back the History of feasting and feasting culture in China. The earliest feasting literature is the feasting poetry in The Book of Songs,and the feasting literature writing has always been an important categories in creative writing during the literature history. The feasting poems in Xiaoya took the culture of social ethic and rites as their main subject,while the feasting poetry in Guofeng are relatively more forthright and sincere, the rudiment of such idea as making merry while one can has appeared. The sightseeing feasting at Yexia from the end of Han Dynasty to the beginning of Wei Dynasty combined the feasting gathering, sightseeing and poetry creation together, and the sightseeing feasting tradition of literati has been founded by then. The sightseeing feasting poetry written by Caopi and the Seven Scholars of Jian'an is of relatively strong political and communicative features, and created a new lyric way of happiness ending and sadness coming. The feasting activities in Jin and the four coming dynasties took the emperors and noblemen as centre, creating sightseeing feasting preface and gong'ti poetry as main products. Feasting literature reached the level of total flourishing in Tang Dynast, with manifold feasting pieces appeared. The rebellion of An and Shi brought great social reformation and switching, feasting and entertainment activities extensively and lively spreaded among people after mid Tang Dynast, and Ci-poetry is a bunch of beautiful and luxurious flower cultivated in this soil. In despite of different features existing, xishu Ci-poetry and nan'tang Ci-poetry are all reflection of the worldly and romantic feasting life under new social conditions. Chapter two, observe and study the feasting life of people in song dynasty. The feasting life of Song is under the background of developed commercial economy, the new bureaucratic policy, the cultural worship policy and overall prosperity of feudal culture. The royal banquet activities played an encouraging and demonstrating role for the feasting activities of ministers and common people, the banquet of common people is the stage for cultural products production and their quick spreading, while bureaucrat scholars is the main body of the feasting activities. The attention to social communication, the idea of seeking for pleasure of bureaucrat scholars, and the rich social conditions together caused frequent literati pleasures. The feasting activity in Song Dynasty of bureaucrat scholar inherited the tradition of the former Dynasties: combination of the sightseeing and feasting with literature activities, combination of social communication with recreational function. Meanwhile, The substance elements which contained cultural atmosphere, the entertainment modus of singing girls waiting on, and the literature atmosphere of talking about poetry, papers, and Ci-poetry built up great new characters of the age.Chapter three, feasting and Ci-poetry have closely interacting relationship. Ci poetry is the main literary activities of Song feasting, its creation based on the"host---singing girls---- guests"role construction on banquet. The feasting activities have the overall function on the promotion of Ci-poetry and on shaping of poets. We can find it from the host's preparation about Ci-poetry for the banquet, singing girls asking for Ci-poetry to compliments and acknowledges between host and guests during the banquet, also we can find it from invitation to the guests, feasting preparation to pre feasting, pro feasting and turning back feasting. in return, Ci-poetry also had great effect on feasting life of Song people. From the palace to folk, Ci-poetry had totally penetrated into the feasting life of Song people. Sending wine by Ci-poetry, dancing accompanied by Ci-poetry and show talents by Ci-poetry leaded to the fashion of paying more attention to cultural abilities on banquet of song Dynasty.Chapter four, The feasting life has an important effect on the formation and development of the main styles of Ci-poetry. Ci-poems often use wine, wineglass, curtains, candles, flowers, fruits, dancing girls , musical instruments as images, which contributes to the rich and gorgeous features of Ci-poetry. Ci-poetry is the script for stag, which should be song by singing girls, this means that Ci-poem should not only be singable, but also it should fit to the characters'of the sing girls. The listener's different identity and ?psychological expect has showed two tendencies: elegant and vulgar。Feasting makes ci poetry be of obvious communicative functions and recreational function. Communicative functions have two levels: direct communication and communication through the medium of courtesan. Entertainment function based on the independence of Ci-poetry, Under the condition of strengthening entertainment function, the writer and the narrator in work has been obviously distinguished, people would consciously play a role in the Ci-poetry, the special substituted form in Ci-poetry is just the result of cross-Dressing role-playing。Ci-poetry is lyrical literature, The true feeling of ci poetry under the feasting surrounding is of sincere, deep euphemism, and strong characters.Chapter five, the emotional connotation of Ci-poetry. cherishing spring and making the life happy are the main melody expressed by feasting Ci-poetry, from meeting spring, appreciating spring to keeping the spring, being sad for spring. there existed a common feeling of valuing spring among feasting singing of song people. The feeling of cherishing spring is essentially to cherish youth as well as beauty, friendship, love, and happy times. The second main melody of feasting poetry is to express love and missing. the love sense is gradually wakened in song Ci-poetry, it can be divided roughly into three stages: the first stage is substituting lyric stage, the poet would express the common, stereotype missing for the women who missed their lovers; the second stage is to describe the subtle love feeling between the guests and singing girls; The third stage is to express the emotion course and missing feeling of the writers themselves. Moreover, There exist elegant, generous, sad, graving feelings in feasting Ci-poetry.