Love is the most beautiful yearning of mankind. From the day of human birth, love is doomed to be entangled with human beings. In primitive society, there was the spread of the god of marriage, and in the west, there was also the myth of Cupid's love of God. Machiavelli believes that love and marriage are the ties that continue human society. As a masterpiece left over from more than two thousand years, The Book of Songs is the only love literature classic in China that has got rid of heavy makeup and vulgarity.
It not only records the happy or painful love and marriage life of the ancient people in China, but also provides valuable information for us to study ancient customs and history. The love poems in The Book of Songs show later generations that to get rid of the shackles of "inhumanity" and return to the true state of human beings, we must win the freedom of the subject spirit, which is the root of the immortal cultural value of this ancient classic.
There are many entries in the Book of Songs that record love, including love poems (Guan), marriage poems (Shuo people) and abandoned wives poems (Meng). Here we can find that the three kinds of poems recorded in The Book of Songs are the trilogy of love: love, marriage and maintaining marriage. The time span of love poems in The Book of Songs is quite long, reaching 600 years, but both the theme and the theme have the same connotation.
So what is the love recorded in the love poems in The Book of Songs?
First of all, let's look at the first poem in The Book of Songs: "Nan Zhou's Guanju" Guanju dove, in Hezhou. A beautiful and virtuous woman is a good spouse of a gentleman. Mix shepherd's purse and salvage it from left to right. A beautiful and virtuous woman wakes up to pursue her. If you can't pursue it, the black nightclub misses her during the day. Miss Long, I can't sleep over and over again. Mix shepherd's purse and choose from left to right. A beautiful and virtuous woman came to her with a couple and a couple. Shepherd's purse is not neat, and the pen is left and right. A beautiful and virtuous woman rings the bell to please her.
This poem is about a man who falls in love with a girl and then misses and pursues that woman. It shows the anxiety, pain and joy when a man gets what he wants for the first time. In the present words: this is a courtship poem. Although the poem is not long, it fully embodies a young man's sincerity and infatuation for a beautiful love.
A beautiful and virtuous woman is a good spouse of a gentleman. This sentence implies the criteria for people to choose a spouse: beauty, goodness and virtue. Coincidentally, this standard thousands of years ago is almost exactly the same as the contemporary standard of mate selection! Perhaps this coincidence implies that the form of love can be changed, but the essence of love is unchanged.
If you can't pursue it, the black nightclub misses her during the day. Miss Long, I can't sleep over and over again. This sentence just expresses the pain of lovers' missing in the love stage, and this feeling is the best embodiment of pure love. It is also the most natural expression of love. Confucius once said: "Guan Yu is happy but not lewd, and sad but not hurt." I think what Confucius said is not aimed at this poem, but the essence of love embodied in these 100 poems.
Love and people's yearning for love reflected in the love poems in The Book of Songs are strikingly similar to the understanding and yearning of contemporary people for love, which is not a simple coincidence. But an internal connection. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the present, for thousands of years, the social ethics of the feudal ruling class ruthlessly suppressed love, and he advocated the words of matchmakers and the lives of parents.
Free love is forbidden and suppressed. After brainwashing, in the late feudal society, this suppression was no longer just the behavior of the rulers, but the custom of the whole society. But people's understanding and pursuit of true love will not change. So no matter what society, people still have to yearn for true love. Even at the cost of life.
However, the intrinsic factor of people's pursuit is that true love is great and simple, and it is also human nature. It is this nature that enabled the people of China to cross the feudal society for thousands of years, while the latter returned to the noblest and simplest love described in The Book of Songs.