Daily Life And Ci Poetry Writing In The Late Ming And Early Qing Dynasties

The Ci poetry of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties is important in the history of Ci.Although the research in this area has been very fruitful,there are still few researches that study Ci poetry from the perspective of daily life.In fact,expressing daily life extensively is a significant feature of late Ming and early Qing dynasties Ci poetry.Although Ci poetry from Tang and Song dynasties to the middle of Ming Dynasty also describe ordinary and trivial daily life,this is a characteristic more common of Ci composed during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.Based on this,this paper consists of the following six chapters:The first chapter summarizes the daily life presented by the late Ming and early Qing Ci.The kind of Ci poetry that developed by the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing dynasty shows characteristics similar to the daily life presented by Song poetry.Compared with the previous Ci,the selection of daily life’s topics by poets in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was far more extensive,and the writing was more elaborate.They used various writing strategies to transform the mediocrity of daily life into aesthetic objects and give them rich aesthetic connotation.Endow it with rich aesthetic connotation.The presence of daily life in Ci poetry was the result of the combined effect of many factors such as the prosperity of commodity economy,the flood of hedonism,the blocking of imperial examination system,the poeticization of the Ci style and the revival of Song dynasty poetry style,was a backwash of erotic themes since the mid Ming dynasty and a self-rescue movement of Ci poetry literature.The second chapter is about the material life words in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties,which is represented by food,tea and women’s clothing.For the theme of "old food",the poets of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties adopted Song poems and injected daily experience into the words,describing the cooking process,eating way and taste feeling with more space and more detailed writing methods.Through literary writing and imagination,ordinary trivial things that were not noticed became aesthetic objects.For the theme of "new food",they deduced from the name of food,on the one hand borrowing allusions from the old food similar to them,enriching the cultural connotation of food;on the other hand,they used food as the medium to promote the interaction between the material life and spiritual level of Ci poetry people by establishing the relationship between me and me,food and people,food and Ci poetry in the past.The process of making and drinking tea in Ming and Qing dynasties was simplified,the writing space was reduced,and as a new thing,it lacked poetic precipitation,so the tea words in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties imitated the tea literature of the Tang and Song dynasties,drawing materials from the classics.In the process of imitating ancient times,the professional terms in the Tang and Song dynasties such as "taking tea","tea grinding","tea grinding","tea mortar","frying tea",etc.,occurred in words related to tea culture in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.The poets of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties had an aesthetic and playful attitude towards many daily things,and women’s clothing is no exception.They used Ci poetry to show the beauty of women’s clothing vividly.There were two best writing strategies.One was to imitate the "Book of Songs·Green Clothes" to introduce emotions in the description of clothing,and the other was to learn from the Han Yuefu "Mo Shang Sang" creating images in the description of clothing.The third chapter is about the study of the leisure life words in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty,which is represented by the garden,tourism and flower arrangement.The writers of the garden were divided into Qi people,Tongli Ci poetry friends and foreigner Ci writers.The different identities of the people in the garden make the poems of the garden show a self-contained writing with Qi Biaojia as the mainstay expressing the joy of seclusion,with Zhang Dai as the head of the social writing that praised the garden owner and the garden scenery,and Sun Guanglie as the representative of an interactive writing that incorporates personal sentiments,and Shang Jinglan’s writing that combined the pain of loss and the grief of subjugation.The expansion of the length of the couplet style of travel in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty provides the necessary space for the Ci poetry people to enrich their content and display skills,making up for the shortcomings of the short genre that could not fully record tourism activities.The combination of prose and poems in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties could be influenced by the miscellaneous poems of the Southern Song dynasty,that often formed a collection when they reached a certain scale,meaning that the Ci poets in late Ming and early Qing dynasties entered a new writing state.The words related to vase of flowers in the late Ming and early Qing,on the one hand followed the writing of the Song Dynasty vases and used vase images to express grievances.On the other hand,they began to show the literati’s real interest with vase of flowers.In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties,the vase of flowers blended into the poetic traditional image group,becoming a part of the construction of the elegant poetry environment.Affected by the development of vase flower theory,the writing of vase flower poems in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was very delicate,and there appeared words to discuss the theory of flowers arrangement.The fourth,fifth and sixth chapters respectively take Li Yu,Chen Weisong and Zhu Yizun as case studies.Li Yu introduced the theme of daily life into the ci,as a strategy of ci style innovation,and integrated the technique of drama creation into the ci,describing the daily life in the form of words full of fun,thus opening up a new situation of words and forming a unique style in the history of Ci poetry.Chen Weisong had a large number of kinship words,and his affectionate words were characterized by ups and downs and great spirit.In his Ci poetry writing,Chen Weisong used many skills,and his kinship words have been further integrated into"reaching emotion with spirit".Zhu Yizun had been gluttonous all his life,and his dietary style ranging from frugality to luxury and alcoholism is the epitome of social dietary trends at that time.From the perspective of its food characteristics,it can be proved that the "Shi Xian Hongmi" signed by Zhu Yizun is a fake.Zhu Yizun’s later diet poetry has the characteristics of enlarged subject matter and refined writing,which has pioneering significance in the history of poetry.