What is Song Ci?

Song Ci is a popular literary genre in China in the Song Dynasty. Song Ci is one of the new style poems relative to classical poetry, which marks the highest achievement of Song literature.

Song ci has long and short sentences, which are easy to sing. Because it is the lyrics of music and harmony, it is also called tune, Yuefu, music movement, long and short sentences, poetry, piano music and so on.

It began in Nanliang, formed in Tang Dynasty and flourished in Song Dynasty. The representative figures of Song Ci mainly include Su Shi, Xin Qiji (the representative poets of the bold school), Liu Yong and Li Qingzhao (the representative poets of the graceful school).

On the Extended Information of Song Ci Schools

1, graceful school (including Huajian school)

Graceful and restrained school is a school of China's Song Ci. Graceful, that is, tactfully implicit. Its main characteristics are that the content focuses on children's amorous feelings, the structure is profound and meticulous, the melody is euphemistic and harmonious, the language is round and beautiful, and there is a kind of femininity. The representatives of graceful and restrained school are Liu Yong, Zhang Xian, Yan Shu, Yan, Ouyang Xiu, Qin Guan, He Zhu, Zhou Bangyan and Li Qingzhao (generally including Wen and Li Yu in the late Tang and Five Dynasties).

Representative works: slow voice and search; Li Qingzhao in Song Dynasty.

Looking around, lonely and sad. It's the hardest to stop breathing when it's warm and cold. Three glasses and two glasses of wine, how can you beat him? It's late and urgent! Guo Yan is very sad, but this is an old acquaintance.

Yellow flowers were piled all over the floor, withered and damaged. Who can pick them now? Looking out the window, how can you be black alone! Indus is raining in Mao Mao, dripping at dusk. This time, what a sad sentence!

Translation?

Empty and unprincipled, cold and desolate, sad and sad. How to rest when you feel warm and cold? Drinking three glasses of light wine can't resist its urgency and the cold wind blowing in the evening. The geese who have gone to the south to escape the cold have already flown, but sadly, they are old acquaintances. Deny one's hometown.

The chrysanthemums are all yellow, and I am sad and haggard. Have no intention of appreciating flowers and cherishing them. Now that the flowers are fading, who can pick them? Look at the window to see the time, look at the window to see the time, I hope it's not dark. It was drizzling on the plane blades, and it was still dripping at dusk. How can this situation be described by a sad sentence?

2. A bold school

Bold school is one of the Ci schools formed in China Song Dynasty. Writers of the Northern Song Dynasty, such as Wang Anshi, Su Shi and Su Zhe, all used the word "uninhibited" to comment on poetry. Su Shi was the first to discuss ci with "boldness".

On the whole, the characteristics of bold and unconstrained ci are that the creative vision is broad and magnificent, and the words are written in poetic ways and syntax, with a large vocabulary and many things that are not in line with the rhythm. However, sometimes it is dull and even involves crazy shouting.

Representative Works: Su Shi, Nian Nujiao Chibi in Song Dynasty, Nostalgia for the Past

The surging river flows eastward, and those heroes of the past are gone forever. Old camp west, people say it's the war of the Three Kingdoms, Battle of Red Cliffs.

The steep rock wall, like thunder waves lapping against the river bank, waves like rolling up thousands of snow. The majestic rivers and mountains are picturesque, and many heroes emerge at once.

Looking back on Zhou Yu's spring breeze era, young and beautiful Joe just married him, and he was full of heroic spirit. A white figure with a feather fan came face to face, and while talking and laughing, the enemy warships burned to ashes.

I am wandering in the battlefield today. I feel a feeling heart and give birth to white hair prematurely. Life is like a dream, sprinkle a glass of wine to pay tribute to the bright moon on the river.

Translation?

River of no return, wash out those romantic figures through the ages. Heroes of the ages. On the west side of Laoying, people say that Zhou Yu of the Three Kingdoms broke the Red Cliff in Cao Jun. Steep stone walls soar into the sky, and thunderous waves beat against the river bank, and the waves aroused seem to have rolled up thousands of accumulated snow. The majestic mountains and rivers are picturesque, and how many heroes have emerged at one time.

Looking back at Zhou Yu's spring breeze, Qiao, a peerless beauty, just married him, full of heroic spirit. Wearing a nylon scarf and chatting calmly and smartly, 800,000 Cao Jun went up in smoke. Today, I wandered in the battlefield of that year, laughing at my sentimentality and premature delivery of white hair. Life is like a dream. Let's drink to the eternal moon.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Song Ci