Song Ci is the first special style to express romantic love in the history of China literature development. "Poetry expresses aspiration, Ci expresses aspiration" and "Ci is a colorful subject" are all generalizations of this mainstream creative tendency.
The theme of Song Ci focuses on mourning for the Spring and Autumn Period, parting from sorrow, various customs, love between men and women and so on. These are directly or indirectly related to "eroticism". Su Shi, praised by later generations as the founder of "bold words", still belongs to the category of "eroticism".
Su Shi should be said to be the ultimate founder of the tradition of literati lyric poetry, and some people think that this is also the beginning of the decline of historical development. Song poems just express their feelings for mountains and rivers blindly, or sing without desire. Chen Shidao used "Poetry as Ci" to evaluate Su Ci, the essence of which was the innovation of Su Ci in Taoist thought.
Generally speaking, the process of "elegance" of words, in a sense, is the process of words gradually approaching poetry and trying to cross the boundary between "expressing ambition" and "expressing emotion". So Lu Fuzhi said, "Elegance is the best, but it is still a tributary of poetry. Indecent, not enough words. "
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Song Ci can be basically divided into two categories: graceful school (including Huajian school) and wild school.
1, the characteristics of graceful and restrained school
Mainly the content focuses on children's customs. The structure is profound and meticulous, paying attention to the harmony of melody, the language is round and fresh, and there is a gentle beauty. Narrow content. For a long time, characters tend to be gentle and graceful, so people have formed the concept that grace is authentic.
Li Houzhu, Liu Yong, Zhou Bangyan and other poets all regard "the truth of ci", which represents this view. Graceful and restrained words occupied a dominant position in the ci world for a long time, until a large number of poets such as Jiang Kui, Wu Wenying and Zhang Yan in the Southern Song Dynasty were influenced by graceful and restrained words in different aspects.
2, the characteristics of bold and unconstrained
Generally speaking, the creative vision is relatively broad, the weather is magnificent, and I like to write words with poetic techniques, syntax and typology. Wide range of words, versatile, not constrained by rhythm. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian, Chao, He Zhu and others all had works of this style.
After Du Nan, due to the great changes of the times, tragic and generous tenors came into being, which became a common practice, and Xin Qiji became a great master in creating bold and unconstrained ci.
The school of bold and unconstrained ci is not only unique, but also has a great influence on the ci circle in Song Dynasty. From the Song and Jin Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, there were always poets who held high the bold banner and made great efforts to study Su and Xin.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Song Ci