A Study On The Image Of "Water" In Dai 's Poems

Has a close ties between water and Dai. Dai People’s living environment,customs and habits, thoughts and feelings, moral values, and are subject to the baptism and infiltration of water culture. Water as an important life and spirit of the elements, to participate in the field of poetry creation in the Dai people, as is one of the classical images of Dai poetry. The image of "water" in poetry of Dai nationality is infinite, have their own characteristics and meaning abundance, not only constructed distinctive artistic charm of Dai poetry, but also influenced a generation of Dai poet’s creation of poetry.As a symbol of Dai culture, whether in literary or cultural value, the images of "water" is undoubtedly the most bearing collective consciousness and emotion characteristic of the Dai people, and the image text so that it can be pinned to the inheritance. The "water" image is the soul of Dai poetry and it not only expressed the poet of the Dai traditional culture and ethnic memory traces and regression of various emotions, but also permeated with the poet Dai experience in the rapid development of the modern society. With the progress of the times, the poem "water" image of the symbolic meaning continue crossing, replacing, even changing, and it is the cultural connotation and cultural function has never faded in the trendof history. This paper mainly discusses the Dai poetry images of "water" in three aspects:First,starting from a and water related legend, discusses the Dai’s poetry origin "with the waterr relation ", discusses the Dai poetry in the course of the development of several important poetry style, ballads, love songs of the Phoenix, epic and the epic poetry and modern poetry. Diachronic approach highlights the Dai poetry and " water" is closely related. In order to understand the characteristics of Dai’s poetry.Second,studying different types of "water" image in the poetry of Dai. Different types of "water" image contains different symbolic meanings. In Dai diverse customs activities, water plays an important role. The Dai pepole put "water" in poetry to use,it is not the natural attribute the existence, but as a symbol of Dai culture and customsof the Dai people, truely represented complex ideas in the world; In many love songs(poetry), narrative poems and modern poetry of Dai, "water" image is as a symbol of love poetry expression. compares people with water, transfers feeling with water to performance the Dai romantic poetic thinking and with water as the aesthetic orientation of beauty; "water" as a symbol of moral exhortation in Dai narrative poem is particularly significant, depending on the physical properties of water show great virtue characters or poor behavior. With the water metaphor of human heart than voicing Good and evil, moral superiority; after the founding of new China, Dai area appeared the first group of writers and poets, they keenly conscious the changes in the motherland with each passing day, will be "water" as a symbol of political appeal to express their infinite of the national imagination and political feelings.Third, Dai poetry in "water" image of the various types urged the cultural connotation and cultural function also showed diverse and diversified characteristics,in order to improve the construction of Dai water culture system. In the Dai poetry of "water" image is the Dai water culture,it reflects the cultural connotation of the four:the water is the original natural substances, to maintain the life source of the occurrence and development of Dai society; two, a strong religious atmosphere,primitive religion and Buddhism Harmony Aioi, water has become communication media of Dai people’s eyes to ghosts; three, Dai of "water" image a lot of writing on the subject of love poems, aims to highlight the sexual beauty, the beauty of love;four, Dai poetry in "water" image is the individual and the whole nation to the Dai Dai water culture psychology convincing and recognition performance. The images of "water" has Has become a symbol of the ethnic identification, Dai people themselves or other people, will be the logo as an important element of ethnic identity.Dai poetry in the cultural functions of "water" image are reflected in the educational function, inheritance function, aesthetic function. Three functions also in a certain extent promoted the Dai’s Poetry creation, make the social function of Dai’s poetry is more standard and significance of the times.