On Huang Tingjian's Composition of Bamboo Branch Lyrics and His Construction of the History of Bamboo Branch Lyrics
Huang Tingjian(黄庭坚),a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty,had a special fondness for bamboo branch lyrics(竹枝词),and successively composed four groups of bamboo branch lyrics.Though they were then still singable,they were overflowing with variations in terms of artistic style,which had been transformed from musical style(乐章体)to unmusical style(徒诗体).Huang's bamboo branch lyrics still maintained the lyrical and passionate characteristics inherited from the bamboo branch lyrics of the Tang Dynasty,and greatly differed from the later-generation bamboo branch lyrics that specially treated local customs with weakening subjective lyricism,and plainer and smoother styles.In terms of criticism,Huang Tingjian made a lot of narrations and comments about bamboo branch lyrics.Especially,his related discussion on Liu Yuxi's(刘禹锡)Nine Bamboo Branch Lyrics(《竹枝词九首》)concerning the time and place of their composition,their status in the history of lyrics,and their aesthetic value,can be regarded as the first thesis on the history of bamboo branch lyrics.
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