"the Guangling Tide" Contains Yangzhou Ancient Cultural Study

"Guangling Tide"is a representative novel work of Li-Han qiu who lives the late Qing. It carries quite a thick and vivid culture of Yangzhou. First,"Guangling Tide"describes the birth custom,weddings and funeral custom,festival custom,and present the distinctive mark including"Yangzhou skinny horse"and"Yangzhou foot".Second,"Guangling Tide"records storytelling in Yangzhou dialect and the ditty in Yangzhou and the other performing arts. Third,"Guangling Tide"reappears the conflict and integration of old and new cultures in Yangzhou. It contains the opposition between the abolition of imperial examination and the set of new school,the opposition and amalgamation between the institutional,spiritual culture and the traditional culture,the opposition and amalgamation between the old marriage and the new marriage. The ancient culture in Yangzhou has the characteristics of tolerant symbiotic refined and popular tastes, the humanist spirit tempering toughness with gentleness, which is generated factors such as history, geography and culture. The content of Yangzhou ancient cultural plays a very important role in the novel. In one hand,it enhances the authenticity of the novel,and in the other hand, it enriches the novel's aesthetic connotation.