The language form of The Book of Songs is vivid and colorful, which can often achieve "twice the result with half the effort" and "a thousand emotions". However, the language style and national style of Ya and Song are different. Most of the chapters in Ya and Song use a strict four-character case, with few miscellaneous words, while there are many miscellaneous words in the national style.
In "Xiaoya" and "National Style", repeated chapters and sentences are often used, but they are rare in the aspect of appealing to both refined and popular tastes. Many modal particles, such as, zhi, zhi, die, Hu, er, yi and ye, are used in national customs. These modal particles have also appeared in Ya and Ode, but they are not as numerous and varied as those in National Custom. The wonderful use of modal particles in national style has enhanced the vividness and vividness of poetry and reached a vivid situation.
The different linguistic features of elegance, praise and national style reflect the changes of the times and society, as well as the differences in the identity of the creative subject.
"Ode to Ya" is mostly a work of the Western Zhou Dynasty, written by nobles, which embodies the dignity of "Elegant Music". "National Custom" is mostly works in the Spring and Autumn Period, mostly collected from the people, which more embodies the freedom and boldness of the new voice and is close to the spoken language at that time.
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The Book of Songs is China's first monograph on pure literature, which opens up the narrative and lyrical connotation of China's poems and is called "the ancestor of pure literature". It is the earliest collection of poems in China, which determines the rhetorical principles and rhyme principles of Chinese poems. It is called "the ancestor of the collection" and "the ancestor of poetry (rhyme)". It is also a representative of northern literature, yellow river basin literature and civilian literature.
Confucius spoke highly of The Book of Songs. Confucius believes that studying The Book of Songs can cultivate association, improve observation, learn satirical methods, and serve parents and monarchs with truth, thus achieving the ideal of managing the family, governing the country and calming the world.
The Book of Songs created China's literature for thousands of years, and also created China's realistic literary works for many years.