The Art of Satire in The Book of Songs

The satirical poems in the Book of Songs are mostly written by working people and middle- and lower-class scholars in society. They describe negated things with various mocking attitudes and techniques, which can be called the source of satirical literature in our country. These satirical poems skillfully use rhetorical methods such as metaphor, irony, interrogation, exaggeration, contrast, and imitation, and achieve a strong satirical effect, which constitutes an important aspect of the satirical art of the Book of Songs. In the era when "The Book of Songs" was produced, although the aesthetic, educational and cognitive functions of literature were far from being explained theoretically, in the practice of poetry creation, poets had consciously regarded "thorns" as The main function of poetry is to present a strong consciousness of actively intervening and reflecting social life, to express life experience and emotions, to complete one's own personality in satire, and to realize one's own path pursuit.