Bai "on Cloud Music" In Christian Composition Test

Shang Yun Le, which tells a story of an old foreigner named Wen Kang who comes from the faraway Western Regions to the capital of Tang Dynasty for the purpose of dancing for the emperor of Tang Dynasty and congratulating on his long life, becomes one of the most controversial poems of Li Bai.Based on the researches of the former scholars on this subject, this thesis mainly discusses the theme of the Christianity-concerned elements within Libai's this work. Started from the poetic title Shang Yun Le in Yue Fu (an official conservatory in Han Dynasty (206 B.C-A.D. 220) for collecting and composing folks and ballads), this thesis tries to find out the origin of the title and investigate and study the different interpretations of Shang Yun Le from those poets thereafter in Chinese history. Then, this thesis, by adopting the methods of Genealogy and Image Studies in comparative literature, examines and explains the accomplished time of Li Bai's Shang Yun Le and this work's relationships with those foreign religions; and then explores the Christianity-concerned elements of this work, and finally probes into the ways by which Li Bai has made his acceptance of the heterogeneous culture and thereby clarifies the rules and significance of the Chinese literary culture's fusion with the heterogeneous literary culture, which might be projected in this work.By those detailed differentiation and analysis, investigation and interpretation, the following conclusions have been made in the end: there really exists the heterogeneous culture of Christianity in Li Bai's Shang Yun Le; meanwhile the expression of this heterogeneous culture has mixed up with the Chinese mythology. As a melting-pot of the oriental and occidental cultures, Li Bai's Shang Yun Le portrays a special figure with the belief of Christianity in "other" image, and also this image reflects the Chinese peoples' special understanding and expression to the "other" people in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.