The Artistic Features of The Book of Songs and Its Influence on Later Generations

First of all, it initiated the fine tradition of China's poetic realism. His creative spirit of "Hungry people sing about their food, and laborers sing about their things" has inspired and promoted later writers to pay attention to reality, national destiny and people's livelihood. For example, the Yuefu works of Han Yuefu folk song writers, Jian 'an poets, Chen Ziang, Du Fu and the poets of the New Yuefu Movement are the direct inheritors of this creative spirit.

Secondly, his artistic techniques of fu, bi and xing provided a successful artistic reference for later literary creation. Later, Qu Yuan expressed his love and hate with the beauty of vanilla, and the satirical poems in the folk songs of Han Yuefu, Ruan Ji's Ode to Love, Guo Pu's Wandering Immortals, Li Bai's Antique, Li Shangyin's Jinse, Lu You's Yongmei, and the satirical works of beautiful thorns in Yuan Zaju all competed with the Book of Songs. As for the technique of fu, it also had a far-reaching impact on later literature. Fu literature is directly developed from it. In addition, there are many works in poetry, ci, opera and novels that incorporate the technique of fu.

Thirdly, the position of folk literature in the history of literature was established. Most of the poems in The Book of Songs are folk songs, which are simple, fresh, lively, harmonious and natural, opening up a broad road for later scholars to learn folk literature. Judging from the development of literary history, a new literary style is often conceived by the people first and then developed by the literati. Some successful writers in the past dynasties also enriched their creations by drawing lessons from folk literature. Learning from folk literature is a fine tradition in the history of China literature development.