Study Of Liu Ci-poem Under Social Culture Background In Early Song Dynasty

On the development history of Ci-poem, Liu Yong was the first professional Ciwriter. He was a civilian literator who was in lower classes. Therefore, his Ci weremore influenced by the culture background in early Song Dynasty than thescholar-officials'. We try to illuminate the effects of special political economic system,social aesthetic sense and culture atmosphere on Liu Yong and his ci. From the aboveanalysis, we wish to comprehend the pop literature in the eleven century more deeply.The thesis consists of three parts. In the introduction, we depict the particularityof the Ci-verses in Tang and Song Dynasties briefly, that is, it was a literature-culturalphenomenon. Among all the Song Ci-poems, Liu Ci-poem was more to reflect thesociety in early Song Dynasty.In the first part,we explain the social culture foundation of three classes of maincontent of Liu Ci-poem. We spread our issue from three aspects, that is, city economy,singing girls organized system, the official career of intellectual. In each aspect, wealso take examples to address the social sense of each kind of works.In the second part, we address the social aesthetic sense and the art characteristicsof Liu Ci-poem. The distinct characters of Liu's Ci were Man Ci and the popularlanguage, which were related with the folk-custom of the Northern Song Dynasty. Thepopularity of Man Ci produced lots of new tones of Ci poem, which resulted in the birthof Liu Yong Man Ci. The taste of populace not only caused the content of Liu Ci-poemshowy and meretricious, but also affected its language.In the third part, we discuss the idealistic characters of Liu Yong from the point ofview of culture atmosphere in the Northern Song Dynasty. In ancient China,Confucianism held the dominant status for the intellectual. However, during theNorthern Song Dynasty, when the gastronomy was prevailing and civil consciousnesswas prosperous, Liu Yong was bothered by his failure of the official career, and at thesame time, his feelings had the character of profound and overindulgence.In general, the appearance of Liu Ci-poem was not a haphazard. Its content andartistic form embodied the reference with the former literature, but the most importantfactor, which made Liu Ci-poem different from other works, was its combination oftaste value and culture value.