The Study On Folk Love Songs About Parting

This thesis focuses on folk love songs about parting, just as its name implies, it refers to the works with the theme on parting in folk love songs. The spirit of one country or nation is depended on its lives situation. China culture is established on the agricultural society and consanguinity, so the Chinese people seek stability, attaching more importance on meeting and feeling sentimental over parting. it is especially true for the couple and lovers who are loyal to each other. There is strong attachment bone between them who are eager for being with each other harmoniously and keep each other company until they both grow old and die. however, under normal life situation, meeting coexist with parting, especially in social background(imperial examinations, migration, going on a business trip. etc.) parting is inevitable. This makes the lovers or the couple have no choice but to face parting. People feel deep sorrow when parting with others .what more, the emotions will be pent-up, so they need to release their emotions. The song is the most simple and effective way to express one's emotions. Thus, numerous love songs about parting are created.On the basis of collecting a lot of folk love songs of parting ,The paper, taking the theory of psychology, folklore, literature and art, studies the culture of sociology ,psychology and aesthetics about these songs. The methods used in the paper are literature research, comparison, Interdisciplinary research, and so on.The introduction explains the reasons and significance of the study on love songs about parting, and gives a brief account of research achievements written by predecessors.The first chapter analyses the mental and social background on which the parting love songs emerge and become prevalent. That is, subjective and objective factors jointly contribute to the emergence of parting love songs. Mental background contains two aspects. From the macroscopic aspect, our country is the one that is attached to our native land and unwilling to leave it, and prefer meeting to parting; from the microcosmic aspect, because of adult attachment between the lovers; the researches on social background are with an eye to the efficient reason causing the parting.Chapter II studies the feelings of folk love songs about parting. Sincere and deep and complex feelings make folk love songs about parting are touching and popular, feelings can be be taken for the soul of folk love songs about parting. This part of paper studies the feelings of folk love songs about parting from two aspects namely emotional content and emotional expression of the songs.Chapter III, analyzing the lyrics of the folk love songs about parting. These lyrics'overall style can be summarized as "deep inmost feelings but shallow appearance, short phrase but Meaningful affection". This chapter deals with the style from three respect: lyrical ways, image and technique of expression.The concluding part of the paper summarizes the former three parts, and analysis briefly the different function of folk love songs about parting to the parties and people in today's society.