The influence of The Book of Songs: The realist spirit it expresses, "the hungry sing about their food, the laborers sing about their work", has set an example for future generations of progressive writers, inspiring and promoting poets and writers to care about The fate of the country and the suffering of the people, reflecting reality as the starting point of creation.
Influence
"The Book of Songs" is the glorious beginning of ancient Chinese poetry. It has a huge impact on the development of later generations of Chinese poetry and even the entire ancient literature.
1. It embodies the realist spirit of "the hungry sing about their food, the laborers sing about their work", which sets an example for future progressive writers and inspires and promotes poets and writers to care about the country. Destiny and the suffering of the people take reflecting reality as the starting point of creation. This passion for paying attention to reality, strong political and moral awareness, and sincere and positive attitude towards life have been summarized by later generations as the "elegant" spirit.
2. Qu Yuan inherited the lyrical and passionate works with individuals as the main body in "The Book of Songs". The characteristics of Han Yuefu poems arising from events and the generous voices of Jian'an poets are all direct inheritance of this spirit. Later poets often advocated the "elegant" spirit to carry out literary innovation. Chen Ziang's poetic innovation and many outstanding poets in the Tang Dynasty inherited the "elegance" spirit. The tendency to pay attention to real life, intervene in politics, and care about the people's sufferings as shown by Bai Juyi and the New Yuefu scholars is also a manifestation of the "fengya" spirit. Moreover, this spirit extended from Lu You in the Song Dynasty to Huang Zunxian in the late Qing Dynasty in his creations after the Tang Dynasty.
3. The "Fu, Bi, Xing" expression techniques of "The Book of Songs" have been inherited and developed in the creation of ancient Chinese poetry, and have become an important feature of ancient Chinese poetry.
4. The overlapping forms and accurate, vivid and beautiful language of folk songs in "The Book of Songs" have also been widely absorbed and used by later poets and writers. The Book of Songs, with its profound social content and beautiful artistic form, attracted future generations of literati to pay attention to and learn from folk songs. Practical significance
The Book of Songs pays attention to reality and expresses true feelings triggered by real life. This creative attitude gives it a strong and profound artistic charm and is the first milestone of Chinese realist literature.
"The Book of Songs: National Style" is the source of Chinese realist poetry. In "July", you can see the bloody and tearful life of slaves, and in "Cutting Sandalwood", you can understand the class consciousness of the exploited Awakening, the angry slaves boldly raised a righteous question to the ruling class who gained something for nothing: "If you don't farm or plough, how can you get three hundred grains of grain? If you don't keep or hunt, how can there be a badger in Erting?"
Some poems also describe workers' direct struggle against the ruling class in order to obtain the right to survive. In this regard, "Shuo Mouse" has the power to shock people's hearts. Introduction to The Book of Songs
The Book of Songs is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry and the earliest collection of poems. It collects poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (11th century BC to 6th century BC). *** 311 poems, of which 6 are Sheng poems, that is, they only have titles and no content. They are called the six Sheng poems (Nanmei, Baihua, Huashui, Youkang, Chongwu, and Youyi), reflecting the period from the early Zhou Dynasty to the late Zhou Dynasty. The face of society during about five hundred years.