1. Development of urban economy: The development of urban economy in Song Dynasty laid the foundation for the prosperity of Song Ci. With the continuous expansion of the city scale and the prosperity of business, the citizen class has gradually grown, and their demand for literature and art has also increased. As an easy-to-understand literary form, Song Ci has been widely spread and recognized.
2. The influence of Confucianism: The Song Dynasty was a period of revival of Confucianism, and Neo-Confucianism became the mainstream thought at that time. Under the influence of Neo-Confucianism, scholars pay attention to inner cultivation and personality perfection. As a way to express personal feelings and thoughts, Song Ci has become an important way for literati to show their inner world.
3. The need of literature development: the emergence and development of Song Ci is also the need of literature itself. On the basis of the high prosperity of poetry in the Tang Dynasty, scholars in the Song Dynasty began to seek new literary expressions. Song Ci, with its unique artistic style and flexibility in form, adapted to the needs of literary development and became a new representative of Song literature.
The true colors of Song Ci:
1, full of emotion
Song ci is characterized by rich emotion and nuance. Poets express their feelings about life, nature and love by expressing their inner feelings. The emotional expression of Song Ci is implicit and deep, giving people a strong emotional voice. Li Qingzhao, a poetess in Song Dynasty, expressed her nostalgia and affection for her lost youth by describing the scenes and emotional experiences in her dreams.
2. Flexible form
Song Ci takes long and short sentences as the basic form, with different lengths and lively rhythm, showing great artistic flexibility. This form makes Song Ci more vivid in expressing emotion and artistic conception. Song Ci has a wide range of themes, involving life, history, politics, love and other fields, which also makes Song Ci more expressive and appealing.
3. Far-reaching artistic conception
Song ci pays attention to the creation of artistic conception, and creates a profound and unique artistic conception through the methods of scene blending and virtual reality. These artistic conceptions are fresh and elegant, sad and deep, or passionate, which left a deep impression on readers. The Song Dynasty poet Su Shi's "Water Tune Song Tou" creates an ethereal and pure artistic conception through the description of the bright moon, breeze and other images, which makes readers feel a realm of transcending the world and returning to nature.