1. Originated from The Book of Songs. This statement was first put forward in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He said, "Six-character speaker,' I take my money? Genus also. Yuefu is also used. "(1)" menstruation is thinking about money? " A sentence from The Book of Songs, Nan Zhou crooked her ears. Liu Xie's Wen Xin Diao Long Ming Shi explores the origin of six-character metrical poems, and inherits Zhifu's view that "three or six miscellaneous words come from articles". ② Obviously, Liu Xie's theory about the origin of six-character rhythmic poetry can be traced back to The Book of Songs. Zhao Yi, a A Qing, talked about the origin of the Six-character Rhyme, and also attacked the theory of suffering. He said, "According to Shi Mao, I said I moved to the king's capital, and I said I had no family. ". "③
2. The theory originated from Gu Yong in the Western Han Dynasty. This statement was first put forward by the South Korean side. He said in "The Origin of Articles": "Six-character poems were written by the great Confucian Yong in the Han Dynasty." When it comes to six-character poems, Cang Hua in Song Dynasty accepted the new viewpoint. He said: "Five words began in Liling and Su Wu, seven words began in Hanwu Bailiang, four words began in Hanwangfu, six words began in Guyong and Hansi farmers, three words began in Xiahou Zhan, and nine words began in your hometown." ④
3. It started in Dong Fangshuo. In the Tang Dynasty, Shan Li annotated Zuo Si's Ode to Historical Poems in Selected Works, believing that this six-character poem originated in Dong Fangshuo in the Western Han Dynasty. Dong Fangshuo's six-character rhyme can only be found in Shan Li's notes and quotations in Selected Works, and there are only two sentences. One sentence is that Zuo Si's poems in the twenty-first volume of Selected Works quote Dong Fangshuo's six-character poems, "give up and not accept"; The other sentence is Zuo Si and Shu Du Fu in Volume 4 of Selected Works, quoting "combining respect and entertaining".
Among the above theories, the theory of worry traces the origin of six-character poems, so it begins with the six-character poems in the Book of Songs. Both Gu Yong's theory and Dong Fangshuo's theory limit the origin of the six-character rhyme to the Western Han Dynasty. Looking at the existing literature, we can find that the latter two statements are debatable in three aspects: first, there are no poems circulating in Gu Yong and Dong Fangshuo; Second, Sima Qian's Historical Records and Ban Gu's Hanshu have no records of their poems. Third, Yu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty talked about the six-character poetic style when discussing the poetic style, but only said that there were six-character poems in the Book of Songs, but did not explain when the six-character poems were formed. Liu Xie's "Wen Xin Diao Long" only said that "three or six miscellaneous words come from articles", and neither of them mentioned the contribution of Gu Yong and Dong Fangshuo to six-character poems. Moreover, in the past, many opinions about the origin of six-character poems focused on six-character scattered sentences without considering the whole poem, which was not enough to show that six-character poems had appeared in the pre-Qin or Western Han Dynasty, let alone that six-character poems had been formed.