Poetic Research On Yuefu Poems In The Liang Dynasty

In the early period of his reign,Emperor Wudi of Liang Dynasty drew lessons from the loss of Qi Dynasty,worked hard to govern and advocated culture and education,which led to a peaceful and prosperous political situation in Liang Dynasty for thirty to forty years.In this situation,the development of literature is also flourishing.Liang Dynasty literature can be divided into two periods based on the third year of Zhongda Tong.The early stage pursues elegance,the core characters are Xiao Yan and Xiao Tong,the later stage pursues novelty and emotional swing,and the core characters are Xiao Gang and Xiao Yi.Yuefu poems in Liang Dynasty developed under this literary background,with the trend of tonal pattern and antithesis,and that romantic love became the first theme of Yuefu in Liang Dynasty.In the construction of elegant music in the Liang Dynasty,because of Emperor Wudi’s Confucian identity and his knowledgeable,proficient in music,most of the elegant music in the Liang Dynasty was decided by himself.Emperor Liang Wudi himself advocated both ancient elegance and simplicity.In order to pursue the elegance of the songs of Jiao Temple,he ordered Xiao Ziyun to use classical words instead of using the superficial words of Zishi articles to create works.Emperor Liang Wudi thought that respectful is the main thing for the sacrifice and the etiquette should be simple.The twelve elegant works of the Liang Dynasty were used not only in suburban temples and Mingtang,but also in banquets.They were considered to be indistinguishable from heaven and earth,ancestral temples and monarchs and officials.To some extent,they were related to Emperor Liang Wudi’s "simplicity" thought.This paper discusses the principles of poetry,the development and evolution of Yuefu in Liang Dynasty,the history of poetry and related literature issues,and tries to solve some of the more important academic problems.The paper is divided into four chapters.The first chapter is the principle of poetry.It mainly discusses the guiding ideology and aesthetic orientation of the creation of Yuefu poems by reviewing the construction of various kinds of elegant and popular music and dances in Liang Dynasty,such as suburban temples,Yanshe,advocacy,cross-talk and dance songs,and reveals the underlying reasons for the main characteristics of various Yuefu poems in Xiaoliang Dynasty.It is believed that Xiao Liang’s Yuefu poems are closely related to his concepts of attaching importance to the educational function of elegant music,the function of eulogizing virtue of elegant music,the ancient elegance of elegant music lyrics and the simplicity of singing and dancing rituals.The second chapter is divided into three parts:the overview of the content of Yuefu poems in Liang Dynasty,the analysis of the variation of Yuefu poems in Liang Dynasty and the study of Yuefu poems on objects in Liang Dynasty.From the perspective of history,this paper examines the development and evolution of Yuefu poetry in the Liang Dynasty,revealing that Yuefu poetry in the Liang Dynasty presents a wide range of themes,full of true feelings,parallelism,rhythm and more planned works.The third chapter is the history of poetry.It examines the overall criticism to Yuefu Poetry of Liang Dynasty through Yuefu Poetry Theories of the past dynasties.At the same time,it also examines the criticism to Yuefu Poetry of Royal Members of Liang Dynasty and Yuefu Poetry of literati of Liang Dynasty.Generally speaking,it mainly focuses on the discussion of its literary style,literary characteristics and some of Yuefu’s poems,and seldom involves the analysis of the author’s ownership and writing age.Chapter IV is about the related problems of Liang Dynasty’s Yuefu.It mainly discusses the repertoire and music origin of Liang Gujiao’s cross-blowing tunes,and explores the origin and skills of several special Yuefu poems in Liang Dynasty.It is believed that there are some musical connections between Guo Maoqian’s 68 pieces of cross-blowing tunes of Liang Gujiao in Yuefu Poetry Collection and Han Hengchui and Zhenren Song in Northern Wei Dynasty.