Three expressive techniques in the creation of The Book of Songs. "Fu" is a direct narrative of things; "Bi" is a metaphor; "Xing" means to say something else to lead to the words you sing, which has two meanings, one is improvisation, and the other is to express some thoughts and feelings diplomatically through objective scenery. "Fu Bi Xing" was put forward by Confucianism in Han Dynasty, and later evolved into the basic principles and methods of China's ancient literary creation.
The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China, which can be traced back to1BC to the 6th century AD. Originally called poetry, * * * collected 305 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, including love, war, customs, sacrifices, animals and plants, and so on.
In addition, there are six poems that have no content, that is, there are no words, which are called Sheng Liu, and their titles are Nan Lang, Yu Geng, Chong Qiu and You Yi. Therefore, The Book of Songs is also called 300 Poems, and it is also called the Five Classics with Shangshu, Book of Rites, Zhouyi and Chunqiu.
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The original meaning of the word "Xing" is "Qi". The word "xing" in The Book of Songs is interpreted by Zhu as "talking about other things first, so as to stimulate what is sung", that is, paving the way for what is sung by other things. It is often used at the beginning of a poem or a chapter. Therefore, the most primitive "xing" may be just a beginning, which has nothing to do with the following, but shows drifting and association for no reason.
Besides, there are many meaningful uses of "Xing", such as metaphor, symbol and contrast. But it is precisely because "Xing" is originally produced by the drifting and association of ideas without reason, so even if it has more real meaning, it is not so rigid, but subtle.
Because "Xing" is such an implicit and freely used technique, later poets who like the implicit and euphemistic charm of poetry are particularly interested in it, and all of them are ingenious and innovative, which constitutes a special charm of China's classical poetry.
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