An Analysis of Liu Yong's Song and Prose of Geisha
Liu Yong,a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty,had frequent interactions with geisha and created a large number of geisha po-ems,which accounted for a significant proportion of Liu's poetry.Liu Yong's courtesan lyrics can be divided into three types:longing type,praise type,love type,and sexual description type.Liu Yong created a large number of lyrics about geisha for three reasons:firstly,the influence of social values;the second is the infiltration of cultural factors in the era;the third is Liu Yong's personal subjective fac-tors.Liu Yong's geisha lyrics have made a huge contribution to the trend of Chinese literature from elegant taste to popular taste.
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