Han Poems Life Consciousness Research

In the poetry of Han Dynasty, the performance of life consciousness had already appeared more concentrated trend: the sigh for the short life and the elapsed time, the sorrow at the difficult life, the grief over the death, the imagination of celestial being and transcending over death. Because of the eternal theme and common feelings of human, the poems of life consciousness in Han Dynasty are still great creations in literary history. The paper includes concrete analysis of these poems and reveals the social mentality in Han Dynasty that people were sensitive to elapsed time and earnest to be immortal.The first chapter of the paper provides some reason for the prosperous poetry in the Han Dynasty and outlines the performance of life consciousness in the poetry.The second chapter is divided into 4 sections according to the four types of the performance of life consciousness in the poetry. The four types of performance are sigh for elapsed life (or time), the sorrow at the difficult life, the grief of dead and the poems about celestial being, preserving one's health and body, wishes for longevity.The third chapter outlines the relationship between life consciousness in the poetry and the study of Confucian classic. The content of Han Dynasty poetry involves to the every aspects of social life. The poems are filled with incisive contradiction and conflict of the real life. Some of them contain the sorrow at the difficult life, the grief of dead, and some of them have resentment to the world and mundane affairs. The mood in some poems is filled with indignation, and in other poems is sad and moving. The poems didn't keep to the Confucian criterion that "sorrow without self-injury" originated by Confucius.