Life and Death Value of Han Dynasy's Elegy Poetry

The poem of Han Dynasty had its own special death concept. What the meaning or value behind the death? What people die for and what the reason that people are easy to die for? So we can discover the value of the death those were hide. People had the determination about the death from the “life and death together” of Book of Odes in Pre-Qin, “no regret for nine times death” of Quyuan to Jiao Zhongqing, and Liu Lanzhi's “Death for revolt against the oppressors ”of Kong Que Dong Nan Fei in Han Dynasty. This character expressed their character facing the death and life and the value of life. The elegy song of Han Dynasty had the “faithful” life value of people character and also the death. So the determination of life value was discovered from the death to express faithful and honor, death to express faith about love, and death to express pride and helplessness of life.