The Comparison Of Jiaomiao Songs In Han, Wei, Jin, Southern And Northern Dynasty

Jiaomiao songs, which stands for a kind of song used in sacrifice, is a significantpart of Yuefu folksongs. Jiaomiao songs in Han, Wei and Six Dynasty had continuouslydeveloped based on the sacrificial songs in pre-Qin period. The content is to praisesomeone or sugarcoated. The style is rigid and lack of literary flavor. This thesis willanalyze the three points of view of Jiaomiao songs in Han, Wei and Six Dynasty, whichincludes the content and thought the features of the refined sound of of Han, Wei andsix dynasty and writing style, to try to sort and demonstrate the features of Jiaomiaosongs in Han, Wei and Six Dynasty in the content, musical style and writing style.Based on the worship and chanting of the God to bless, the content of Jiaomiaosongs in Han, Wei and Six Dynasty also have their own new features in each dynasty.Anshifang songs and Jiaosi songs,which belong to Jiaomiao songs in Western HanDynasty, is immense and beautiful, and they manifest the grand unification during theprosperous period of the Western Han Dynasty. During Wei and Jin Dynasty, Jiaomiaosongs began to return to the classics of music and established the foundation of thelater creation of Jiaomiao songs. Because of the relative social stability and theprosperousness of the study of ritual, Jiaomiao songs in the Southern Dynasty reachedits climax of creation. Jiaomiao songs in the Western Danasty mixed the songs of Hanand Hu, which is a minority in ancient China, and stressed on marals and ritual.During its inheritance and development, although Jiaomiao music had inheritedthe previous refined sound, the refined sound they inherited of later generations hadchanged in some extent along with social development and transition and newrequirement of rituals and music. Jiaomiao music in Han, Wei and Six Dynasty weredifferent from the one under the system of refined sounds in Zhou Dynasty. Besides theinheritance of music theory, instrument, and musician of their previous generation, theJiaomiao music in Han, Wei and Six Dynasty inherited and innovated the refinedsound. Jiaomiao music in Han Dynasty include Chu sound, new changed one and theinheritance of refined sound of their previous ones. Besides the inheritance of theirprevious ones, Jiaomiao music in Jin Dynasty had totally practiced new created refinedsound which was a higher tone music than the previous one. Jiaomiao music had continuously perfected and developed in Southern Dynasty. Each dynasty followed theprevious systems. During Xiao Liang period, the rituals and music imitated the ones ofprevious dynasty of Zhou and Han, and formed a complete system of refined soundwhich contained the confucian classical profound meaning. The rituals and music styleof Northern Dynasty was a mixture of Han and Hu on account of the features ofJiaomiao songs in Northern Dynasty.Generally speaking, the writing style of Jiaomiao songs in Han, Wei and SixDynasty is lifeless, rigid and awkward-sounded. Moreover, writing style among eachdynasty had some subtle diversities. The writing features of Jiaomiao songs in HanDynasty is immense, profound and elegant. Since returned to confucian ritual classics,the style of Jiaomiao songs in Wei and Jin Dynasty is solemn and reserved. There weremany verse describing natural scenery in Jiaomiao songs in Southern Dynasty. Thestyle is flexible, permeable and brisk. At the same time, they payed much attention tobeauty in form which has very magnificent and sugar-coated vocabulary. The normalform which depend on the five elements in sacrificing the five gods by Xie Zhuang inSouthern Dynasty created the language form of the five elements when sacrifice thefive god in later generations. This leaded to the transformation of language formbeyond four-character form and changed the single form of creation of Jiaomiao songs.Compared with that in Southern Dynasty, the style of Jiaomiao songs in NorthernDynasty was more glorious, elegant and solemn.