The Research Of Poems On Qingming Festival In Song Dynasty

Poems on Qingming Festival tended to mature in Song Dynasty, it is not only confined to depict folk activities and folk matters, but also focused on showing people’s unique emotional experience and insights on life during Qingming Festival. Peoms on Qingming reflected the spirit of the Song Dynasty and Literati’s cultural character, has highly research value. Peoms on Qingming in the Song Dynasty reflected the highly artistic level, and thus become a model for future generations on creation of Qingming poems. It has a rich emotional expression, the way of selecting image and using literary quotations are also very distinctive, worthy of in-depth study. This paper will use the knowledge of history, folklore, aesthetics, literature and other subjects, study by all-round and multi-level of poems on Qingming Festival in Song Dynasty.Before the study of poems on Qingming Festival in Song Dynasty, as a basic research, we must know something about the relationship between the Qingming Festival, the Cold Food Festival and Pat’s Day, learn something about the original development of the Qingming Festival. We have to understand the definition of poems on Qingming Festival, and to clear the general situation of poems on Qingming Festival in Song Dynasty. Poems on Qingming Festival concentrated reflected the folk customs and folk activities of Qingming Festival in Song Dynasty, like a mirror showed the life style in Song Dynasty. Introduced the custom including lighting new fire, giving fire, pluging Liu and wearing Liu, paying respects to a dead person, Spring Outing and literati’s gathering activities. In addition, the themes and thoughts reflected in poems on Qingming Festival were also extremely rich. Peoms on Qingming Festival scribed what did the literati see and hear during Qingming Festival and their feelings in Qingming Festival, including the sad feeling of time flighting, sad feeling of losing relativies and friends, happiness in life, idealities and dreams, home missing. Poems on Qingming Festival not only reflected a strong ideology, but also have highly artistic value.It is worth of deeply and carefully study of the way how to expressing feelings, selecting images and using literary quotations.