Although Tianjingsha Qiu Si is a Sanqu, it shows profound poetry and has been widely praised. Zhou Deqing, a writer in Yuan Dynasty, called it "the ancestor of Qiu Si". Today, let's feel the charm of this masterpiece.
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From the historical development to the Yuan Dynasty, various literary styles appeared in the literary world, such as prose and poetry, which are usually regarded as elegant literature, and they are the media of expression and expression. Sanqu, on the other hand, is popular literature. They are just operas, which can only be provided for performers to perform or give people birthdays for fun, and it is difficult to be elegant.
In this way, Sanqu was suppressed by the old style.
However, this song has been welcomed by the public after all. Therefore, more and more literati are willing to write songs, and the songs are gradually elegant, and they want to compete with poetry for territory.
As a result, scholars began to try to express their thoughts with songs like writing poems.
Therefore, Sanqu in the Yuan Dynasty was accompanied by the sentiment of literati. On the other hand, as a popular music, Yuanqu still exists, so it has not lost its artistic characteristics of popularity and singing.
Yuanqu: taste both refined and popular.
Therefore, Sanqu in Yuan Dynasty is essentially a kind of literature that appeals to both refined and popular tastes. Ma Zhiyuan's song "Tianjingsha Qiu Si" embodies this characteristic of appealing to both refined and popular tastes.
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Tianjingsha is a qupai, which specifies the format of the work, and Qiu Si is the title, which specifies the content of the work. Qupai marks the origin of pop music, and the title reveals the charm of literati poetry.
Ma Zhiyuan's "Tian Jing Sha" is actually out of this musical background. Directly show the rhythm of the text itself. It has no interlayer (words added to the card format) and follows the most basic format of Tianjingsha (completely composed of 64 sentences). The number of words in each sentence is even.