Leisure Interest of Gathering Mulberries Written by Ouyang Xiu from the Perspective of Song Culture
Ci of the Song Dynasty highlighted the expression of the poets'inner feelings under the influence of Song culture.With personal knowledge,aesthetic taste and complex life experience and with the lyrical property of Ci with the natural and human landscape of West Lake in Yingzhou as the object in Gathering Mulberries,Ouyang Xiu constructed a profound and euphemistic artistic conception of Ci and expressed his leisure interest,which em-bodies the attachment to the beautiful landscape of West Lake in Yingzhou and the leisure feelings from the scener-y,showing the transcendence of traditional consciousness and the pursuit of life meaning.Meanwhile,Ci written by Ouyang Xiu promotes the development of Song culture and contributes to it more inclusive,elegant and popular cul-tural characteristics,which conducts a profound impact on the development of literature in the Song Dynasty and later dynasties.
Song cultureOuyang XiuGathering Mulberriesleisure interest