The different characteristics of Northern and Southern Song lyrics
First of all, the difference between Northern and Southern Song lyrics comes from the evolution of music. Northern Song poets often responded to the requests of singers and dancers during banquets and wrote lyrics to sing at the banquet. The lyrics written by poets of the Northern Song Dynasty were casual entertainment, amateur entertainment, drama, a true description of private life, and an unabashed expression of temperament. The lyrics of the Southern Song Dynasty were increasingly separated from the fetters of music and developed independently. The road gradually became the elegant literature on the desks of literati. On the other hand, the huge changes in the social environment of the Southern Song Dynasty forced lyric creation to step out of the ivory tower and set its sights on the broader social reality. The lyrics of the Southern Song Dynasty were often created between literati and poets. The result of mutual singing or lyrics club entertainment is sometimes a clarion call for the war of resistance and a tool that serves reality. Lyric writing by Southern Song poets is an elegant artistic activity, a careful organizational arrangement, and even a solemn emotional expression. Therefore, " "Jie Cunzhai's Miscellaneous Works on Ci" said: "In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were meaningless words to respond to songs, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, there were meaningless words to respond to society."
Secondly, it has to do with the evolution of this musical background and the changes in the creative environment. Changing the correlation, most of the poets in the Northern Song Dynasty wrote expressive works, often expressing their inner emotions based on the scenery in front of them, which were natural, vivid and touching. The poets in the Southern Song Dynasty took great pains to conceive, cleverly arranged, wonderful and rich, clear methods, and remarkable syntax and composition. Point, the warning is moving.
Again, the Northern Song Dynasty poems were written with emotion, rich and mellow, and expressed personal enjoyment, with few unexpected purposes; the Southern Song Dynasty poems were ingenious and clever, conveying both inner and outer meanings To express the poet's tortuous thoughts, he often uses the technique of Bixing.