Abstract:

The Ci poetic genre was established during the process in which the Northern and Southern Chinese cultures were merged into one. Three facts can illustrate this: from a musical point, the Ci tune derived from folk music had two different sources, North and South China; from a location point, the Ci poetry was produced in both North and South, centred around such main towns as Chang an and Loyang in the North and Yangzhou in the South; from a poetic point, the earlier Ci writers were from both North and South, and most of them traveled widely and were nourished with both Northern and Southern cultures.

Key words: Northern and Southern cultures, merge, the Ci poetic genre, establishment