The Plant Image In The Ci Poetry Of The Song Dynasty

The plant image is of long standing and well established in Chinese literature, which owns rich literatural and cultural implications. The plant image in the Ci poetry of the Song Dynasty attempts to make a literatural and cultural research to the great mass of the plant image in the Ci poetry of the Song Dynasty from a certain extent. Which is made up of three parts.Part one,"plant image in the Ci poetry of the Song Dynasty and the society and the literators in Song Dynasty". People Song pay attention to this life indulge in material comfort, and the Song Dynasty implement advocate literary and restrain the military as a state basic policy from the beginning of founding a state. Fihished the division from Wu Dai - Shi Guo, the Song Dynasty towards enter a relatively stable prosperous period, in addition, ruling class uphold to indulge in material comfort, and give special treatment to the scholar, thus, many gardens and plants appeared, and the private garden developed further than in the previous dynasty. Later, Song Royalty moved to southwards, the economy in Hangzhou is more prosperous, and the garden is more developing than Bianjing and Luoyang. Under the conditiongs of rich in material life and the beautiful landscape environment, the scholars in the Song Dynasty enjoy wind and moon, drinking and flowers. They were living in the specific natural landscape, and the landscape changes in the four seasons, which must bring them a sense to their feelings, and they worte that, which lead to a lot of plant images appeared in the Ci poetry of Song Dynasty. These plants images, which inevitably reflects the personality of people Song, and their life attitude tend to sensible, moderate, strong, indifferent, but also reveals their aesthetic tend to make worldliness to refinement, and appreciate thin.Part two, "the aesthetic image and the artistic expression of plant image of the Ci poetry of the Song Dynasty". The plant as a type of natural substance, the basic aesthetic understanding of which including their appearance beauty and verve beauty. The appearance beauty belongs to the plant themselves. Different plants have different appearance beauty in different seasons, even in the same season different plants have their unique appearance beauty. During the history of literature in China, "grief in spring and in Fall" is of long standing and important performance theme. In the Ci poetry of Song Dynasty, the theme is more intensity, more focus. There are much more description of plants in spring and autumn than in summer and winter. Except plum, there has scarcely any description of winter plants. While the verve beauty is subjective, which is endowed by human being, through empathizing, symbolization, comparison ,personification and so on. The verve beauty is the second level. In the Ci poetry of Song Dynasty, the verve beauty can be summed up in four words : tender, gorgeous, cleanly and melancholy. The fore three focus on the characteristics as delicious , fresh, lively, colorful , as it were a beautiful young girl. Among them the gorgeous oriented plants fresh and bright colors, pretty and flirtatious gesture, usually and vulgar, just like a flirtatious doxy. Meanwhile, The gorgeous and cleanly focus on the plant' s high-hearted characteristics as them struggling with frost, which is a image of a gentlewoman, also is a symbol of nobleness character. While cleanly and melancholy focus on plant' s sensitive characteristics including cheerless and sentimentality, which is a image of sensitive young woman. The four images make up of the four main aspects of personality in the Ci poetry of Song Dynasty. The appearance beauty andthe verve beauty of plant are both very important.Part three ," the aesthetic analysis of important case of plant image in the Ci poetry of the Song Dynasty". Mr. Yuan Xingpei once said: "The thing was objective, it does not rely on people's existence then existence, does not change by people's happiness, anger, grief and joy either. But once the object enters the poet's plot, it will take the poet's subjective color, then it should receive the processing of two aspects : On the one hand, through the filter of the poet's aesthetic experience to meet the poet Aesthetic Ideal and tastes. On the other hand, Through the cooperation of the poet's thoughts and feelings to filter with the poet' s personality and taste. After the both processing, the things appeared in the poetry are images."â‘ The same plant in the Ci poetry of Song Dynasty can pose a lot of various images. Willon, phoenix tree, plum, falling flower, each of these four plants pose many various images, and through the aesthetic analysis to them, we will more deeply understand and grasp the unique features of them.