Dunhuang song lyrics

Flying poems - Dunhuang song lyrics

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Dunhuang Quzi lyrics are folk songs from the Five Dynasties period of the Tang Dynasty that were discovered in the Mogao Grottoes (Mogao Grottoes also known as the Thousand Buddha Caves) in Dunhuang, Gansu province in the early last century, and are also known as Dunhuang lyrics.

This kind of word has a wide range of themes, rich content, lively forms, and diverse styles, which not only has distinct personality characteristics and a strong atmosphere of life, but also retains the simple and fresh characteristics that belong to folk literature works in art, reflecting the original form of words when they rose in the folk. In the Dunhuang song lyrics, it has also been found that some of the surviving Tang Dynasty literati words are rarely found to be long tones.

Dunhuang song lyrics can be regarded as thousands of years of word history in the vertebral wheel,

The compilation of Dunhuang quzi lyrics is the "Dunhuang Quzi Song Collection" compiled by Wang Chongmin, which contains 161 songs of the Five Dynasties of Tang Dynasty. It is divided into three volumes, the first volume is long and short sentences, the middle volume is the Tang Dynasty's "Cloud Ballad Collection Miscellaneous Songs", and the lower volume is Lefu. The "Dunhuang Song" compiled by Rao Zongyi and the "Dunhuang Song Lyrics Editor-in-Chief" compiled by Ren Erbei are important reference materials for the study of Dunhuang words.