Plant Images in The Book of Songs and Their Implication

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in ancient China, which contains rich plant images and implications.

Here are some examples:

Describe nature: There are many poems in The Book of Songs that describe the beauty of nature, such as "Guanju's dove in the river" in Guanju. The beautiful and virtuous woman is a good spouse of a gentleman. "And" Yao Taoyao "in" Yao Taoyao "burns its China. My son should be at home when he returns to China. These poems express the harmonious relationship between man and nature by depicting natural scenery.

Symbolic significance: Many plants in The Book of Songs have been endowed with symbolic significance, such as Guanju's "Lotus Reality" and Chexia's "Green Plants Feel My Heart", which have become a cultural symbol.

Emotional expression: There are also many poems in The Book of Songs that express human emotions through plant images, such as "Give me a papaya and repay it with a lovely one" in Feng Wei's Papaya. It is always good to report. "And" Li Fengre autumn "in" I am from autumn, the decline of hibiscus "

These poems convey human emotions and feelings through plant images. In a word, the plant images and meanings in The Book of Songs are rich and colorful. They are not only an important part of human culture, but also a symbol of harmony between human beings and nature.

Connotation of plant argot;

Based on the metaphor of plant images, the researcher draws the following three conclusions: these plant images are incomplete reflections of social life at that time, tokens of people's mutual love, and symbols of women's fate and love and marriage.

The reflection of social life:

The plant images mentioned in The Book of Songs show us the living conditions of our ancestors more or less, just as humanists are used to demonstrating the rationality of social consciousness from the perspective of social existence.

Although the social productivity under the slave owners' aristocratic politics is low and depends on nature, the industrious and intelligent ancestors have long understood the social division of labor. The collection culture represented by "shepherd's purse is uneven, left and right" precisely reflects the social division of labor, the development level of productive forces and people's material life at that time.