Participating in the war corvee is an obligation that Zhou people must fulfill. Theme of War Corvee Poems: As Zhou people attach importance to agriculture and respect their relatives, on the whole, most of the war corvee poems show war-weariness and strong homesickness and affection. This highlights the strong psychological characteristics of Zhou ethnic farming culture.
The war corvee poems in The Book of Songs not only describe the sufferings of the undertaker of the war and corvee in the recruitment, but also write the mourning songs and bitter words of the separation of husband and wife under the background of the war and corvee.
1. Some war corvee poems are positive eulogies to the war, describing the martial arts of emperors and generals in charge, with great momentum, describing the strict military power, and showing strong pride and optimism, such as "Elegant Jianghan", "Elegant and Brave" and "Xiaoya June". Qin Feng's Xiao Rong, no clothes, etc. , but also the performance of the enemy unity, * * * to resist foreign aggression, defend the country, resist the war, high morale, optimistic war poems. This kind of war poem written in the Book of Songs from a positive perspective does not pay attention to directly describing the battle scenes, but focuses on military forces, emphasizing the moral influence and the shock of military forces, which is the embodiment of the political thought of respecting morality and attaching importance to righteousness, paying attention to moral education, and defeating the enemy without fighting.
2. Because Zhou people created agricultural civilization and loved the peaceful agricultural living environment, some war corvee poems are profound reflections on the war, with profound thoughts and exquisite brushwork. They write about the ruin of the post-war bleak countryside, showing weariness of the war and yearning for peace, and full of sad feelings, such as Picking Chrysanthemums and Dongshan in the Wind.
Xiaoya Cai Wei was sent by soldiers going to the North on their way home. Northern minorities invaded the Zhou Dynasty, and soldiers went out to defend their country. The author's crying that "the shame of being alone is a ghost" shows that he hates ghosts, not Zhou Tianzi. The poet is full of anger at the invaders, and his poems are full of agitation to defeat the invaders, but at the same time he is tired of long-term defense and endless war and is infinitely sad about his own suffering.
"The East Mountain of Guifeng" completely reflects the war-weariness of foot soldiers. Soldiers who have been in the war for three years are sad and happy on their way home, imagining the situation in their hometown and how they feel when they get home. "I" was requisitioned for a long time, and now I finally took off my military uniform and put on casual clothes, and I don't want to March and fight any more. On my way home, I saw the desolate scene after the war. The countryside was deserted, turtles and spiders were circling the house, elk were wandering and fireflies were flashing. But this scene is not terrible. What is more painful is that my wife lives alone in the house, looking forward to the return of "I". Looking back on the wedding, beaming, lively and beautiful scenes, reunion after a long separation, maybe better than the wedding? Here, there are both happy yearning for reunion with relatives after returning to China and worries about the uncertain future. The whole poem combines reality with the poet's imagination and memory, and describes the psychological activities of "I" such as excitement, sadness, joy and anxiety in a very delicate way. The poet's weariness of war and longing for a peaceful life are fully reflected. It is worth mentioning that the author expresses his feelings for his wife by the phenomenon that his wife misses himself, which has a great influence on later generations' creation and is the ancestor of Du Fu's Moonlit Night. Du Fu's Moonlit Night: In Fuzhou, far away, she is watching the moonlight, watching it alone from the window of her room. For our boys and girls, poor little baby, too young to know where the capital is. Her cloudy hair is sweet with mist, and her jade-white shoulders are cold in the moonlight. When can we lie on the screen again and look at the bright light and stop crying? . )
3. In addition to the above-mentioned war-weariness and homesickness, there are a few angry poems. Most of the war corvee poems in The Book of Songs are completely angry and tired of heavy corvee and unjust war. These poems are written about how the war corvee made the countryside barren, and the people were unable to live and work in peace and contentment, support their parents, be angry and cry for land. No matter the doctors who served the emperor, or the lower class people who served the princes and emperors, they all showed the strong dissatisfaction and extreme war-weariness of the soldiers, and revealed the deep suffering brought to the people by heavy corvee, such as "Tang style?" Feather ","Xiaoya? Yellow bird, etc.
4. War corvee poetry pays attention to the sufferings of the group, shows that the troubled times promote the abolition, and also pays attention to the individual feelings. They not only wrote about the sufferings of the undertakers of war and corvee in conscription, but also wrote the elegy of the separation of husband and wife under the background of war and corvee, as well as classic works reflecting the sadness of wife's dissatisfaction and the homesickness of husband and wife. These works, because of the author's rich emotional experience and soul collision, show the inner trauma and psychological bearing brought by the war corvee to human individuals, so they better show the complex and subtle psychological activities such as excitement, sadness, joy and anxiety, so that when reading these works, future generations have a long-term deep boredom with the author and are deeply worried about the author's own suffering and uncertain future.
For example, "Feng Wei? Bo Xi is a story about a woman who is in great pain because she misses her husband far away. It is written in the second chapter: From the east of Bo, her head is like a flying canopy. Is there any ointment? Who is suitable for it? What's the point of dressing up when women are pleasing themselves and their loved ones are not in sight? Frank and simple wrote about thinking about women's inner sadness.
Feng Wang? A gentleman in service also expressed his dissatisfaction with service politics and his mourning for her husband in a homesick tone. Yao Si, who has no intention to leave a message and is hard to give up, reads between the lines. At dusk, cattle, sheep and other livestock go home on time, but the husband can't come back. This is an emotional situation. The idyllic rural scenery is permeated with the endless lovesickness and sadness of homesick women.
This feeling of hating women and worrying about their husbands and cherishing the future is also reflected in later poems; This artistic technique of touching the scene has penetrated into the aesthetic thinking of later generations, affecting the expression of poetry in later generations, such as Li Bai's Spring Thoughts: You are like jade in the north, and I am like a mulberry. When you miss your hometown, you were missed and sad a long time ago. Spring breeze, since I dare not know you, why should I separate the silk curtain beside my bed? ?
As the first collection of China's poems, The Book of Songs is of fundamental significance to later poetry creation. The creative techniques, perspectives and themes of many poems can be found in The Book of Songs. The war corvee poems in The Book of Songs are rich in content and complex in emotional orientation. In my heart forever, a woman who is homesick, has a lot of echoes in the poetry history of later generations, whether praising the military exploits, describing the military power, or expressing her husband's war-weariness mood.