The heroine in the poem recalls the sweetness of love life and the pain of being abused and abandoned by her husband after marriage with great sadness. This poem expresses her remorse and resolute attitude through the self-report of the abandoned wife, and profoundly reflects the oppression and destruction of women in love and marriage in ancient society.
Guo Fengwei Feng Meng is a poem in The Book of Songs, a collection of pre-Qin poems. The author is anonymous, and most of them can't be verified. It was collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius.
Creation background
During the Spring and Autumn Period, productivity was still quite backward. Women are not independent economically in the family, but form a subordinate relationship with men in personality. Once a man changes his mind, he can abandon her without care.
At that time, the ideological system of feudal relations of production and hierarchical system was gradually formed. Women's love and marriage are often bound by ethical codes, interfered by parents and censured by customs, which further forms women's spiritual shackles.
The poem Feng Wei Meng reflects the heartbreaking story of an infatuated woman.