The Fairy-Love Lyrics Of The Late-Tang And The Five Danasties

The character of taoism caters to the custom which satisfies the mental demand of the literators of the Late-Tang and the Five Dynasties. The celestial and Taoist culture pays an important roal in the lyrics and expresses love stories through the fairies ,which become one of the traits of the lyrics of that age.So abundant of Taoist literary quotations and languages be used into the love lyrics and form a new kind of lyrics:fairy-love lyrics.This is the cultural foundation of the fairy-love lyrics of the Late-Tang and the Five Dynasties. There are mainly three parts in the thesis to inquire into the fairy-love lyrics.Firstly,the thesis elucidates the primary meaning of the fairy-love lyrics and detailedly analyzes the lyrics of the female Taoists and faries.At the same time,it keeps an eye on the soul of the literators in the Late-Tang and the Five Dynasties.Secondly,the thesis illuminates the cultural background of the fairy-love lyrics of the Late-Tang and the Five Dynasties.Number one,it explains the relation of the character of the lyrics and Taoism.Number two,it shows how the fairy-love lyrics caused through studying the influence of the Taoism impart the cultural atmosphere and societal mentality of the Tang Dynasty.Thirdly, the thesis accounts for the aesthetic value of the fairy-love lyrics.In the first place,the visages,fineries and actions of the female Taoists are beautiful and vivid. In the next place,Taoist literary quotations make the Taoism and the fairy-love lyrics be connotational and supernatural.In the end,the female fairies and the environment of the female Taoists are elegant.Finally, the thesis subsidiarily to discuss another kind of love lyrics which fill with Taoist and fairy colors wittern by the literators of the Late-Tang and the Five Dynasties,and compare them with the fairy-love lyrics of the times.