Abstract
Throughout history, litterateurs have always attached great importance to the use of color words in their works. Tang poetry and Song lyrics, the most brilliant parts of Chinese literature history, are perfect examples in using color words to create artistic conception and express the thoughts and feeling. In this paper, high-frequency color words that appear in “All-Tang Poetry” (The collection of ancient Chinese poetry in 618–907 A.D.) and “All-Song Poetry” (The collection of ancient Chinese lyrics in 960–1279 A.D.) are chosen as research objects, and the optimal algorithm is employed to study the collocation of the color words in Tang poetry and Song lyrics by comparing the effects of PMI and Word2vec extraction collocation. The detailed analysis of works of twenty poets in Tang and Song Dynasties are also carried out from both macro and micro perspectives, from the use of color words in “All-Tang Poetry” and “All-Song Poetry” to that specific works. As a result, most “
(white)” in Tang poetry expresses frustration or sadness. “
(red)”, the most popular word used in Song lyrics, expresses femininity, indicating that “
(Tang Poetry expresses aspiration and ambition, and Song lyrics express personal emotions between lovers)”.
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This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61872402), Humanities and Social Science Planning (No. 17YJAZH068) supported by the Ministry of Education and the Graduate Innovation Fund (No. 18YCX004) supported by Beijing Language and Culture University. We hereby express our sincere thanks.
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Yang, Y., Zheng, Z., Shao, Y. (2018). A Study of Color Words in Tang Poetry and Song Lyrics. In: Hong, JF., Su, Q., Wu, JS. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11173. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_21
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