Tale of Genji is a novel by Murasaki shikibu, a Japanese writer in heian period. Tale of Genji is a genre of Japanese literature. Generally speaking, the age of writing works is between 100 1 and 1008.
Tale of Genji, with the heyday of the Heian Dynasty in Japan as the background, describes the life experience and love story of the hero Genji. The book has 54 chapters and nearly one million words. Including four generations of emperors, it has been more than 70 years, involving more than 400 people, among whom 20 or 30 people have a clear impression. The figures are mainly upper-level aristocrats, but also middle-and lower-level aristocrats, ladies-in-waiting, ladies-in-waiting and ordinary people. It reflects the cultural life and social background of heian period. While carrying out the realistic aesthetic thought of "truth", it also created the romantic thought of "mourning for things" in Japan.
As a Korean woman, Murasaki shikibu once served the Queen and was hired by Fujiwara's director Akiko Fujiwara as a female palace official to explain Bai Juyi's poems. This queen is Fujiwara's daughter. Tale of Genji is a pastime she wrote to the emperor and the palace.
There are nearly 800 chorus songs in The Tale of Genji, most of which are written by the authors themselves, except for a few Ye Wan collections and Japanese ancient and modern chorus collections. In addition, this work also quotes a considerable number of China's poems. In the important plot of 152, the author incorporates 13 1 poem extracted from China's ancient literary works. Among the ancient poets in China, Bai Juyi had the deepest influence on the author, so there are more than 90 poems quoted in the book. Bai Juyi's most important work "Song of Eternal Sorrow" almost runs through the whole novel and becomes the keynote of Genji's love development for three generations. The lyrics of Tale of Genji are mostly simple and easy to understand, mainly appearing in the plot of giving and receiving characters. As a love-oriented novel, love songs play a key role in the book. There are both bold and simple poems like "Chiba Song" and lingering harmony like "Ancient and Modern Tunes" in the book. The former directly expresses truth, while the latter implicitly expresses sadness. More than 800 harmony songs in Tale of Genji are like bright diamonds embedded in a necklace, which endows the original magnificent works with more artistic beauty.