What did the ancients call eulogies? What does eulogy mean?

Eulogy, in ancient times, was called "eulogy", "lamentation", "hanging text", "sacrificial text", etc., modern eulogy has a broad sense and a narrow sense. A eulogy in a broad sense refers to an article that expresses mourning, remembrance, and dedication to the deceased. In a narrow sense, eulogy refers to a special mourning style that pays tribute to the deceased and expresses grief at a memorial service.

A eulogy is a word or article that expresses condolences for the deceased.

1) Summarizing the life achievements of the deceased and affirming his life's contributions, the modern eulogy is a highly ideological and realistic literary style, which is used by people to express their grief and inspire those who come after them through the achievements of the deceased. As***.

Comrades are mourning Zhang Side.

The eulogy delivered at the comrade's memorial service left "Serve the people.

The immortal chapter of the world. I don't know how many revolutionaries it has inspired who have the courage to sacrifice and ask for their lives for the people, and it still has strong practical significance to this day.

2) The content of the eulogy is positive and the emotional tone is high-spirited and healthy. It is not like the ancient mourning text, which blindly vents emotions, is full of sadness, and makes people feel sad and depressed. It should exclude all sentimentalism, pessimism.

Nihilism and other negative content. It is not oriented to the past, but to the present and the future, which is what people often mean when they say "turning grief into strength."

3) Forms of expression and means of expression.

The diversity of eulogies can be written as narratives.

or discuss **, and can be written into excellent prose works; It can be narrative-based, argumentative-based, and lyrical. At the same time, it is available in both the form of reading and the written form. In a nutshell, it fully affirms the contribution of the deceased to society, sincerely expresses the mourning and respect of the living for the deceased, and embodies the positive content of turning grief into strength in simple and unpretentious language and in a variety of forms.

This is the essential characteristic of modern eulogies.

It means words or articles that express condolences to the deceased. A eulogy is a word or article that expresses condolences for the deceased. It is divided into broad and narrow senses.

Eulogies in a broad sense refer to all forms of mourning articles that express mourning, remembrance and respect for the deceased, while eulogies in a narrow sense refer to the special style of mourning in the form of reading out to the deceased at a memorial meeting. A eulogy is a memorial article that expresses mourning, remembrance and respect for the deceased.

Precautions. 1. The purpose of writing a eulogy is to introduce the life and deeds of the deceased, to praise the achievements of the deceased in revolution or construction, and to let people learn from the deceased's good thinking and style and inherit the deceased's legacy. However, this kind of praise is serious, not exaggerated, not whitewashed, and should be based on facts and make a reasonable evaluation.

2 Turn grief into strength. Some of the deceased did a lot of good things for the party and the people during their lifetimes, and their virtues will always touch people's hearts.

3 The language should be simple, serious, and generalized, which is also a problem that should be paid attention to when writing a eulogy.

The first eulogy for the ages was the Song DynastySu Shi"Jiangchengzi Yimao Dream on the Twentieth Night of the First Month".

1. Original text. Ten years of life and death, without thinking, unforgettable. Thousands of miles of lonely graves, nowhere to talk about desolation. Even if you don't know each other, your face is dusty, and your temples are like frost.

At night, I suddenly returned to my hometown, and I was dressing up in the small window. There are no words for each other, only a thousand tears. It is expected that the intestines will be broken every year, the bright moon night, and the short Matsuoka.

2. Translation. It has been ten years since you and I said goodbye to husband and wife, and I can't bear to miss it, but in the end, He Fan will never forget. The lonely grave is thousands of miles away.

There is no place to tell the sadness and desolation of the heart. Even if you and I meet husband and wife, I am afraid that I will not recognize me, I am already running around, and my face is full of dust, and my temples are like frost.

Last night, I returned to my hometown in a dream and saw you grooming in the mirror in front of the small window. You and I are silent and relatively speechless, only a thousand tears. I expect you to be soft for me every year, on that bleak moonlit night, on that lonely short pine hill.

Background of creation

Su Dongpo. At the age of nineteen, he was twenty-eight (sixteen) years old with Wang Fu.

Tie the knot. Wang Fu is young and beautiful, and his relatives are very filial, and the two are deeply in love. Unfortunately, destiny is impermanent, and Wang Fu died at the age of twenty-seven. This was a huge blow to Dongpo, and the pain in his heart and mental pain were self-evident.

Su Shi in "The Epitaph of the Deceased Wife Wang".

Li said: "In May of the second year of Zhiping (1065), Ding Hai, the wife of Su Shi of Zhao County, Wang Shi (named Fu), died in Beijing. On the first day of June, he was buried in the west of the capital. On the afternoon of June next year, he was buried in Kelongli, Anzhen Township, Pengshan County, northeast of Meizhi.

Eight steps northwest of the tomb of the first monarch and the first lady. In a calm tone, there is great sorrow.

In 1075 A.D. (the eighth year of Xining), Dongpo came to Mizhou.

On the twentieth day of the first month of this year, he dreamed of his beloved wife Wang, so he wrote this poem "There is a sound when the sky is through, and there is a tear when the tomb is a spring" (Chen Shidao) and recited the eulogy for the ages.

eulogy, that is, poems written in mourning for the dead birds; Among them, the works of Su Shi, He Zhu, and Nalan Xingde can be regarded as the representative of the eulogy. The three major mourning words were written by these three people.

The original text of Su Shi's "Jiangchengzi" is as follows: Ten years of life and death. Don't think about it, it's unforgettable.

Thousands of miles of lonely graves, nowhere to talk about desolation. Even if you don't know each other, your face is dusty, and your temples are like frost. Come and dream at night.

Xiao Xuan window, dressing. There are no words for each other, only a thousand tears. It is expected that the intestines will be broken every year, the bright moon night, and the short Matsuoka.

The original text of He Zhu's "Half-Dead Tong" is as follows: Everything is wrong with the gate. What is the same thing?

After the sycamore was half dead and the frost was cleared, the white mandarin duck lost its companion and flew. The grass on the plain, the dew is at the beginning of the day. The old habitat and the new hill are two dependent.

Empty bed to listen to the rain in the south window, who picks up the light and mends clothes at night! The original text of Nalan Xingde's "Butterfly Loves Flowers" is as follows: Hard work is the most pitiful to the sky and the moon, and the night is like a ring, and the night is a joy.

If it is like the moon ring is finally bright and clean, it is hot to give up the ice and snow. Without that dust, it is easy to die, the swallow is still, and the soft curtain hook said. Singing the autumn grave is not over, and the spring cong recognizes the amphibian butterfly.

Jiang Chengzi Yi Mao ordered the first month of the first month of Heng Xiao Lao 20 cautiously pretending to remember dreams day and night.

It is a poem written by Su Shi, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, to mourn his original wife Wang Fu, and is known as the first eulogy for the ages, showing endless sorrow and longing.