Is Song Lyrics a popular song of Song Dynasty?

Liu Jia Fanren focuses on the dissemination of traditional Chinese culture, today we introduce you to Song Lyrics, is Song Lyrics a popular song of the Song Dynasty? How were Song lyrics composed?

I. What are Song lyrics?

Song lyrics refers to a literary genre prevalent in the Song Dynasty, is a dazzling pearl of ancient Chinese literature, traditionally known as the Tang Dynasty poetry, both represent a generation of literary flourish.

Lyrics are one of the new poems relative to the ancient poems, and they are mainly used for music, so they are also known as lyrics, music, music chapter, long and short sentences, poems, and qin fun. Because of the music used, so it is customary to create words called "fill in the words", and generally do not say "write words".

Words began in the Liang Dynasty, formed in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty, according to the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty: "Since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the singers have used a variety of Huyi Lixiang songs." It means that from the Kaiyuan period of Emperor Tang Xuanzong, singers adopted the music of ethnic minorities and folk songs of native customs as tunes, and these tunes were the scores of lyrics.

Two: How did the Song people fill in lyrics?

Song people fill in the lyrics and nowadays popular song writing is similar, usually according to the tune and fixed format fill in the content. During the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, most of the lyrics were based on tunes, while in the Song Dynasty, there were also self-tunes, such as Liu Yong, Zhou Bangyan and Jiang Kui, who were great lyricists as well as excellent musicians, and they often composed lyrics first, and then composed new tunes based on the intention of the lyrics, which, according to today's terminology, makes Liu Yong and the others lyricists and composers.

After the Song Dynasty, lyrics were basically written according to a fixed format, with more attention paid to the meaning of the words and rhymes, but the music of the words themselves was still there, and could still be sung to music.

Three examples of how to fill in the words:

Creating a good word is difficult, creating a good word that has been passed down through the ages is even more difficult, but fill in a word of self-indulgence is not that difficult, the following example of Xin Qiji's "Yongyoule jingkou beigutinghuaigu" as an example of how to fill in the words, "Yongyoule", also known as the "news", the original is flat rhyme, liu yong began to use the rhyme, xinqiji's words are also with the The first is to use the same rhyme scheme as the second.

1, Yongyuele lyrics are framed as follows:

Flat flat, middle flat, flat flat flat, flat flat flat (rhyme). The words are as follows:

For the first time, the words of Yongyue Le are set as follows The Chinese name of the song is "中平中仄", and the Chinese name of the song is "中平中仄". The oblique flatness, the flatness of the middle, the oblique flatness of the middle (Rhyme).

Ping Ping Ping, Ping Ping Ping, Zhong Nyi Zhong Ping Zhong Nyi (Rhyme). The following is a list of the most popular and most popular songs in the world. Middle-lying, middle-lying, flat-lying, and narrow-lying (Rhyme).

The above "in" indicates that the character can be either flat or oblique, and the "rhyme" indicates that the character needs to rhyme.

2. Instructions for filling in the lyrics:

The first two, four, five, seven and eight lines of the first section, and the first two lines of the second section are commonly used in counterpoint; the first five or six lines of the first section can be combined into the "upper four and lower five" style; the penultimate lines of the first section and the second section are the "upper three and lower four" style; and the second sentence of the first section and the second section is the "upper three and lower four" style. The penultimate lines of both the first and second sections are in the "three above, four below" style.

3, Xin Qiji original lyrics see below:

Chinese classical poetry, including the word, is our nation's cultural treasures, and its charm never fails, but people nowadays have seldom created classical poetry, the root cause is not in the present day people's writing skills than the predecessor how much poorer, but lies in the creation of the classical form of poetry is too unfamiliar to us, the Liujiafan people are not very good poets and lyricists. I'm not a very good poet or lyricist, but I'm willing to share some of my creative experiences with you, and I welcome your corrections and criticisms if they are inappropriate.

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