A beautiful and virtuous woman is a good spouse of a gentleman.
Nan Zhou Guanju is the first poem in The Book of Songs, the first poetry collection in ancient China. It is generally believed that this is a love song describing the love between men and women. In the first chapter of this poem, the birds are singing and falling in love, which arouses the association between ladies and gentlemen.
Appreciation of works:
As far as poetry is concerned, Guan Ju is a "folk ballad", and the love between men and women is a folk custom. According to legend, the ancients had the custom of meeting men and women in mid-spring moon.
The chant in Guanju may not be a record of this historical event, but this historical event helps us to understand the psychological state and customs of ancient men and women who met, fell in love and hoped to get married. The object of literary works is social life, and the description of social customs can more truly reproduce social life, so that social life can be integrated into the picture of social customs, which is more realistic.
Guan Ju describes the love between men and women in ancient times as a social custom. As far as music is concerned, the whole poem is formed for harmony.
Guanju uses repeated chapters and sentences, which shows that it is a song and a poem that lives in people's mouths.