Records of Ancient Poetry Offering Theory

As for the theory of offering poems, it is recorded in the ancient books of the pre-Qin period: Guoyu Liu contains Fan Wenzi's words: "I heard the king of the ancient times, the government was virtuous, and I listened to the people, so I made the workers recite and admonish, and the columns offered poems, so that I didn't take them; The wind listens to the slanders in the city, distinguishes evil from slanders, tests everything, asks slander in the Tao, corrects evil and tries to quit. " "Mandarin Zhou Yu" contains: "The emperor listens to politics and makes officials and ministers offer poems and drum songs, ... learn from them and recite them. "The purpose of official martyrs' poems is mainly to satirize or praise poems and express their evaluation of politics. Some works in the Book of Songs provide reliable internal evidence for this statement, such as "Wang wants beauty, but uses remonstrance" ("Daya Minlao"). " Mencius, a temple man, wrote this poem. Every hundred gentlemen, please listen with respect "("Xiaoya Xiang Bo "). The internal certificate and external certificate mentioned above can prove that the system of offering poems by officials and ministers did exist at that time. The system of offering poems by politics and religion involves the creation and application of poems, which embodies the cultural tradition of "remonstrating the main text".