Song Yun (Exploring the Humanistic Spirit and Aesthetic Forms of Song Ci)

Author: Sun Weicheng
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: This book delves into the field of Song Ci from a unique perspective—the pursuit of rhyme. The entire work focuses on rhyme as its foundation to elaborate on various aspects of the topic. It traces the evolution of Ci from the late Tang and Five Dynasties to the hundred years of the Song Dynasty, thereby making Song Ci a vivid embodiment of Song rhyme. Consequently, the history of Tang and Song Ci takes on the form of a history of the emergence of rhyme. This cannot be attributed to anything other than the author's creativity. The book also analyzes the works of various Song Ci poets to explore the shared aesthetic attitudes and psychological tendencies of the Song literary scene, explaining the Song Ci world through the concept of "rhyme" and clarifying the same artistic charm of Song Ci. It identifies the unbroken lineage from to , from to , and from to and .