CI (POEMS) OF THE SONG DYNASTYThree Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry - 3

TONE PATTERN FOR SHI

An example for Wu-Jue (5-word in 4 lines)

白 日 依 山 尽，

white sun along mountain set

黄 河 入 海 流。 Yellow river enter sea flow

欲 穷 千 里 目， want exhaust 1000 mile view

更 上 一 层 楼。 Another go-up one floor tower

Rhyme, in Ping tones, at line end

Ping: 1st and 2nd tones

Ze: 3rd and 4th tones, and RU tones

Ok if not matched

TONE PATTERN FOR CI ( 词 )小山 重疊 金 明滅， small hill overlap gold shine fade

鬓雲 欲度 香腮 雪。 hair cloud will pass fragrant cheek snow

懶起 畫 蛾眉， lazy rise paint moth eyebrow

弄妝 梳洗 遲。 Do makeup comb wash late

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照花 前後 鏡， view flower front back mirror

花面 交 相映。 Flower face cross together reflect

新帖 繡 羅襦， newly add embroiled silk blouse

雙雙 金 鹧鸪。 A pair gold partridge

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○Ping: 1st and 2nd tones

Ze: 3rd and 4th tones, and RU tones

⊙Either Ping or Ze

▲ △Rhyme in Ze/Ping

菩薩蠻(PuSaMan)Used in a series TV show

CI AS A POETIC STYLE

Originated in High Tang LI Bai had written some famous pieces

(Most of the) Ci’s can be sung to a fixed tune Though the scales were often not well preserved

Ci was treated as Remainder of Shi ( 诗余 ) Written mostly for leisure before Song One well known anthology is 《花间集》 (a rough

translation is Between Flowers), of which the piece ( 菩薩蠻) shown on the last slide was the very first

MAJOR SCHOOLS IN THE SONG DYNASTY WanYue:whose charm can be decribed

as Mildly gentle, graceful and subtle, nuanced

gorgeous (Google Translate from 溫柔婉轉，婉約含蓄，濃艷華美 )

HaoFang: bold and heroic Changed the tradition

Collection of 300 Song [Ci-style] Poems Compiled and published in 1925

http://28utscprojects.wordpress.com/song310/