"The Voice of Yasong"and"The Song of Allegory":An Investigation into the Lit-erary Ecology of the Early Song Dynasty from the Perspective of Liyue Revival
The literary world in the early Song Dynasty was complicated and varied.Not only did it present a tense situation of north-south confrontation and difficulty in merging,but also created the divergence between contempo-rary and ancient essays.In addition to this,there is an atmosphere of eulogizing the merits of the king and preaching imperial politics.From the perspective of traditional literary aesthetics,most of the literary works generated by this atmosphere are stylized etiquette writings,but if it is placed in the perspective of the ritual and music revival in the early Song Dynasty for a deeper interpretation,it will be impressive in some eulogies.The awakening signs of the li-terati and officialdom's political subject consciousness,and the sound of allegory in the main theme of Yasong,also declared the further development of the Tang Dynasty literati in the early Song Dynasty.The content obscured by the stylized writing is actually a symphony of politics and literature.The intricate relationship between the longitude and the latitude between the two,and the resulting strong interaction,are reflecting the special literary ecology here.
Ritual and MusicSong DynastyYasongLiterary StyleConfucianism and Taoism