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''New Songs from the Jade Terrace'' () is an anthology of early medieval Chinese poetry in the romantic or semi-erotic "palace style" (''gongti'' ) that dates to the late Southern dynasties period (420589). Most editions of ''New Songs'' contain 670 poems by many different authors, mainly comprising pentasyllabic poetry but also some ''yuefu'' lyrical verse and other types of poems. ''New Songs'' was probably compiled around the early to mid-530s by Xu Ling, an official and scholar who served at the court of Xiao Gang, a crown prince of the Liang dynasty (502587) who later ascended the throne as Emperor Jianwen of Liang. The term "Jade Terrace" is a reference to the luxurious palace apartments in to which upper-class women were often relegated, and a number of scholars have concluded that the ''New Songs'' was probably compiled to provide reading material for palace ladies. The American sinologist Burton Watson notes that this expression may also refer to "a mirror stand of jade such as women use in their toilet; and since the Chinese are fond of elegant euphemisms for parts of the body, it may even have some more esoteric connotation."〔Watson, 91〕 ''New Songs from a Jade Terrace'' is an important collection of Chinese poetry, in part because of the individual poems which it contains, but also because the overall theme of the collection involves the discussion of sex and gender roles and ideals of love and beauty. ==History== A number of details regarding the creation of ''New Songs from the Jade Terrace'' are unclear and subject to debate. Its first surviving mention appears in the bibliographic section of the ''Book of Sui''the official dynastic history of the Sui dynasty (589618)and lists "Xu Xiaomu" (the courtesy name of Chinese writer Xu Ling) as its compiler. However, in Xu Ling's official biography in the earlier ''Book of Chen''the dynastic history of the Chen dynasty (557589)the ''New Songs'' is not mentioned. Strangely, the ''New Songs'' does not contain any poems by Xu Ling's father Xu Chi (; 471551), a notable scholar and poet who was traditionally considered the founder of the "palace style" poetry (''gongti shi'' ) the ''New Songs'' collects. The textual history of ''New Songs'' is particularly complicated. Although it was compiled in the early to mid-530s, no manuscript or printing of the ''New Songs'' from before the Ming dynasty (13681644) has survived to modern times. The traditionally used edition of the ''New Songs'' was printed in 1633 and is based on a late Song dynasty (9601287) edition printed in 1215 that itself was a "patchwork" of two other printed editions and one manuscript copy. It contains 654 poems and was long considered the best surviving edition, but recent scholarship has indicated that it contains a number of significant flaws and errors, causing renewed attention toward other surviving editions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Songs from the Jade Terrace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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