Why The Songs of the South is one of the sources of China's poetry?

The Book of Songs has a lofty position and far-reaching influence in the history of China literature, which has laid a fine tradition of China's poetry and thus formed the national characteristics of China's poetry art.

The Book of Songs is based on real social life, without fantasy and grotesque, and there are few supernatural myths. Sacrifice, feasting and farming described are the products of social economy, etiquette and music culture in Zhou Dynasty. The description of the current situation, war corvee, marriage and love shows the political situation, social life, customs and people's feelings of the Zhou Dynasty. This "hungry people sing about their food, and laborers sing about their affairs."

Songs of the South have a far-reaching influence on the development of China literature, which exists in almost all literary fields and different genres to varying degrees.

Songs of the South is recognized as a poetic monument as famous as The Book of Songs, which has created a new poetic style and played an extremely important role in the development of poetry. First of all, The Songs of the South creatively broke the style of The Book of Songs, which focused on four characters and emphasized chapters and rhymes. Secondly, "Songs of the South" enriched the theme of poetry and expanded the performance field of poetry.