Just a Song: Chinese Lyrics from the 11th to Early 12th Centuries
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The author focuses on and traces how during the Northern Song Dynasty, lyrics evolved from performance texts for banquets to add to the entertainment, through the processes of creation, singing, copying, and collection, and finally evolved into an independent literary genre, gradually gaining an orthodox status alongside poetry. On the one hand, Yuwen Suo'an regards the history of Ci as "the history of Ci collections" rather than "the history of Ci poets" from a new perspective such as performance practice, text dissemination, author issues, compilation and evolution of Ci collections; on the other hand, he also pays close attention to representative Ci poets such as Liu Yong, Yan Jidao, Su Shi, Qin Guan, He We conduct textual interpretations of the works of Zhu Zhu, Zhou Bangyan, Li Qingzhao and others, analyze their different stylistic characteristics and the correlation and influence between them, and strive to present the diachronic development of Ci and its authorization, stylization and canonization process from multiple levels.
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