Poetry 300: Poetry refers to the Book of Songs, with 305 articles, and 300 is just an integer. Cover: General idea.
The word "thinking innocently" comes from the original description of Lu Xigong's groom's way of concentrating on raising horses in The Book of Songs, and the word "thinking innocently" here is an ideological solution. Naive, pure and not evil.
2. Selected from the second chapter of The Analects of Confucius, the original text is Confucius: "Three hundred poems, in a word. Say: Naively think. " .
The annotation of this sentence in The Analects of Confucius is: "There are 300 books of songs, which can be summarized in one sentence, that is: true." The commentary also said: "There are 300 poems about Gaiyan, whether it is a dutiful son, a loyal minister, a resentful man or a worried woman, they are all out of their deepest feelings, and they are straightforward and have no false pretense."
Extended data
This sentence is Confucius' evaluation of the Book of Songs. Confucius compiled the Book of Songs and made a series of comments on the poems in the Book of Songs. According to statistics, there are 19 comments on The Book of Songs in The Analects of Confucius, among which there are two comments on 305 poems in The Book of Songs. First, the article "For Politics": "Poetry is 300. In a word, it is said that' the mind is not guilty'. " Then came the article in Yang Huo: "What is a boy's poem?" Poetry "can be appreciated, watched, grouped and resented ..."
Confucius' literary theory criticism is mainly based on his comments on the Book of Songs, and the theory of "innocent thinking" is an important aspect of his series of expositions. "Thinking innocently" can be regarded as a clear literary criticism standard put forward by Confucius, and it also embodies a broader political standard of Confucius' literary theory criticism.
Confucius believes that the Book of Songs has 300 articles, which are healthy in content, pure in thought, in line with etiquette and justice, and in line with Confucian political and moral standards. This evaluation of Confucius reflects Confucius' thought of attaching importance to the social function of The Book of Songs and demanding that poetry be beneficial to people's moral education.