Annotations to the Book of Songs is a complete translation of the Book of Songs.
Each poem has an explanation, clarifying the background and the theme of the poem.
On the basis of faithfulness and expressiveness, the translation strives for elegance. Translating ancient folk songs with modern folk songs, each sentence is translated in pairs, which is convenient for readers to compare with each other.
The author draws on the strengths of ancient and modern annotators of The Book of Songs, integrates and refines, and writes a concise and accurate annotation.
This book is very popular and suitable for beginners. Cheng Junying also has a Book of Songs, which was published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House.
Notes on The Book of Songs Cheng Junying Jiang Jianyuan Zhonghua Book Company Press
Scholarship is objective, and poetry is discussed by poetry, and the whole poem is understood from the perspective of Confucian classics. Deny most of the statements in Mao Xu. Some people think that The Book of Songs is both a poem and a song.
A hundred schools of thought contend. Throughout the ages, the readers of The Book of Songs are all based on one view, each with its own bias. This book is based on the predecessors' work, choosing the good and following it, paying special attention not to blindly follow one family. And with the research progress of more documents, the content of this book has been greatly enriched.
On the artistic value of The Book of Songs. Every "solution" has an artistic analysis. Or talk about artistic conception, or rhetoric, or describe the origin, or pick a flaw.
The rhythm of the book of songs. Try to restore the ancient sound of the Book of Songs.
There is no translation of this book. Tend to be academic.
Liu Yuqing, author of The Book of Songs, Li Xi Zhonghua Book Company Press.
To understand the meaning of this poem, we should refer to the ancient and modern works and research results on annotation translation, choose its essence and follow it, and also refer to the more reasonable explanation in An Introduction to Poetry.
Keep your notes as simple as possible (in some places, you should indicate the source) and don't do tedious textual research. Some difficult words are phonetic.
On the basis of understanding the meaning of the poem, some examples of its influence on later generations are given, some of which are the experience of the ancients and some are the understanding of today.