A Study On The Lyrics Of Chinese Mainland City Popular Songs

Chinese city popular songs has played a very important influence in today's consumer society since its birth in late 1920s.Its text form lyrics presents an age related thoughts and cultural significance, and reflects the spiritual outlook,the emotional concept and the psychological characteristic of urbanites in the process of urbanization.It not only shows us the urbanism,but also concentrates on the urbanites'emotional and mental status.The paper starts with the appearance and development of the lyrics of Chinese city popular songs and divides its history into four parts which are enlightenment period, resuscitation and rapid expansion period, maturity period and decline period according to the influence of the age background and the literature law. It has went through four development steps of spiritual logic,which is awakeness, liberation, revel and confusion.And next gets a conclusion of the specialities of the lyrics, including existing as "non-poetry" literature, reflecting life experiences in modern city and focusing on the urbanites'emotional and mental activities.