A Study On The Theme Of "Yangzhou Dream" In Song Ci

"Yangzhou dream" is a cultural image,which often appears in poetry,CI and zaju,but in most cases,it is related to the themes of talented people and beautiful women.On the basis of inheriting the theme of "Yangzhou dream" of predecessors,this paper integrates the history of Yangzhou City in Song Dynasty into it,and expands the connotation of "Yangzhou dream".This paper selects Yangzhou as a special region,breaks the time boundary of the southern and Northern Song Dynasty,and sums up the different themes of Yangzhou dream in the southern and Northern Song Dynasty.By analyzing the theme of "Yangzhou dream" in the two Song Dynasties,this paper reappears the situation of Yangzhou in the southern and Northern Song Dynasties,and explores the mentality of scholars in the southern and Northern Song dynasties.The main body of the article consists of the following parts.The first chapter briefly discusses the typical significance of the ancient city Yangzhou and the emergence of the theme of "Yangzhou dream".Yangzhou has a long history.Before the two Song Dynasties,its economy and culture developed to a certain height.The prosperous Yangzhou city gave birth to a beautiful "Yangzhou dream":the dream of prosperity of "riding crane and Yangzhou",the dream of Jiangdu of Sui Yangdi,the dream of fireworks of Du Mu and the dream of Nanke.Their emergence had an important impact on the theme of "Yangzhou dream" of Song people.The second chapter analyzes the theme of Yangzhou dream in the Northern Song Dynasty.The stable urban environment of Chengping in the Northern Song Dynasty provided the literati with material guarantee and spiritual pleasure.Therefore,no matter their elegant dream,fireworks dream,or the hedonism of enjoying in time and self-arrangement in predicament revealed in their dream,they were all related to their life and their life experience.The third chapter analyzes the theme of Yangzhou dream in the Southern Song Dynasty.Throughout the Southern Song Dynasty,Yangzhou was almost shrouded in the shadow of war,so the Southern Song poetry presented a very different theme of"Yangzhou dream" from the previous generation.During the Southern Song Dynasty,Yangzhou was reduced to a border city,and its fate was closely related to the Southern Song Dynasty.At this time,the theme of "Yangzhou dream" jumped out of the small circle of individuals and incorporated the background of the times into it.Their dream of homeland and hero can be said to be the dream of the whole Southern Song Dynasty.The literati in the Southern Song Dynasty were eager to recover the lost land and revive their homeland,but they had no way to return to the country.The destruction of Yangzhou made their poems full of sorrow of leaving and sentimentality of the end of the century.The fourth chapter discusses the characteristics and significance of the theme of Yangzhou dream in Song Ci.In the analysis of the writing of the theme of Yangzhou dream in the southern and Northern Song Dynasty,their characteristics are summed up,that is,in the content,the regional images such as Qionghua and Paeonia are selected;in the structure,the contrast model between ancient and modern times is mostly used to show us a variety of spaces;in the emotional expression,they all have the illusion of life like a dream.Yangzhou is a famous historical city.From the perspective of city and literature,it is also of great significance to study the theme of "Yangzhou dream" in the ci poetry of the two Song dynasties.Firstly,it enriches the city image of Yangzhou;secondly,it reproduces the history of Yangzhou in the two Song Dynasties;finally,it is of enlightening significance to the construction of Yangzhou city at present.