On Love Poetry and It's Cultural Background in the Pre-Song Dynasty

In The Book of Songs it first depicts our ancestors,s natural and simple love screen.Its contents are rich,and its feelings and scenarios are blended.Qu Yuan depicts the love between people and God which is beyond the fantasy reality against the backdrop of nature.The feelings are sincere and the styles are clear-cut in the folk songs of the Wei and Jin Dynasties;the love poems focus on women's physical appearance and clothing description,pay much attention to rhetoric and sound patterns.Love Poems in the Tang Dynasty absorbs nutrition from folk love songs,becoming lively,secular,classical and overshadowed by the rich sentimental color.Love Poetry in the Song Dynasty is replaced by new poems and it declines gradually.In the early Song Dynasty it lays emphasis on the choice of words and form;after the Northern Song Dynasty it becomes more elegant impacted by Ci.