Of the 305 books of The Book of Songs, more than 50 are directly about love. They contain people's emotions, thoughts and spirits at that time, and have rich and far-reaching ideological and cultural connotations. The love poems in The Book of Songs are warm, romantic, fresh and pure, which are the communication of hearts and the collision of feelings. Since ancient times, love has been the eternal theme of human beings and poetry. The love in The Book of Songs is admirable and memorable. The love in The Book of Songs is simple and sincere, which has left us a beautiful chapter in the history of literature. Many people have studied the emotion in The Book of Songs. Next, let's take a look at the emotions in The Book of Songs.
Mr. Yang Guorong (Deputy Director of Academic Committee of East China Normal University) described the emotional content of The Book of Songs from three aspects: daily life, political significance and transcendental significance (heaven as transcendental existence involves the ultimate level), and pointed out the influence of the emotional content of The Book of Songs on later Confucianism at the end of the article.
There are several emotional themes involved in daily life. One is the feeling of love, which mainly refers to the feelings between men and women. For example, Guan Ju, the first poem at the beginning of the Book of Songs, based on the logic of life, highlights the young men and women in Planting Love's desire to restore the original structure of life and restore the meaning of life. The second is lovesickness or missing, as long as it refers to lovers. Another theme is the husband's longing for his wife. Of course, in addition to the emotional relationship between family members, daily life also includes a wider range of social contacts, among which the feelings between friends are more prominent. Political significance involves several emotions: resentment, anxiety and dissatisfaction with social inequality. Transcendentalism is manifested in awe, gratitude, doubt and resentment. The author makes a clear exposition from three aspects: daily life, political significance and transcendental significance, so that readers can have a deeper understanding of the specific connotation of emotion in The Book of Songs.
Liu Songlai (Professor of College of Literature, Doctoral Supervisor, Director of Contemporary Literature Research Center of Jiangxi Normal University, and Vice President of College of Literature) pointed out the importance of exploring ideological factors in emotional expression of The Book of Songs. In his view, the relationship between emotion and ideas in The Book of Songs can be roughly summarized as the following three aspects: ideas create a sexy space-time relationship, ideas display provides convenience for poets to express their emotions at the best time, and express the deep feelings of lyric heroes by showing the hallucinations caused by ideas. The full text extends from negative examples to positive examples. For example, comparing Xiaoya Picking Green with Fufeng Dongshan, we can draw a conclusion that only from the perspective of psychological activities can readers sort out a clear emotional clue. The positive and negative examples in this paper illustrate the importance of ideas (such as the different opinions of Zhu and Yang Shen in Nan Zhou Volume II), which increases the persuasiveness of the article. Finally, it is pointed out that the exploration of ideas in the Book of Songs laid the foundation for the theory of "image" in later generations.
Professor Liu Songlai also has another paper, Three Topics on Emotional Research in the Book of Songs. The author observes the emotional content of the Book of Songs in three specific historical and cultural backgrounds and digs out some profound meanings. Professor Liu Songlai expounds the theme with the overall structure of the score, which is clearly divided into the following three parts: first, the secular human feelings expressed in the Book of Songs provide the corresponding psychological basis for Confucian ethics; Secondly, the sense of hardship expressed in The Book of Songs is often intertwined with a keen political vision, thus serving as the forerunner of some important political theories in later generations; Thirdly, the group emotion expressed by typology in The Book of Songs reflects some basic characteristics of early poetry. The discussion in the three parts is well-founded, and the works in the Book of Songs are cited for explanation, and proved by the conclusions of many other researchers in the Book of Songs, which is more clear and powerful. Finally, I quote Marx's works to discuss the significance of this article. The aesthetic standard of emotion in The Book of Songs is different from that in modern society, and the different understanding of emotion in The Book of Songs has the significance of the times.
Emotion is an indelible part of the Book of Songs, as Wang Fuzhi pointed out when talking about the Book of Songs: "Poetry expresses ambition." The former's analysis of the emotion in The Book of Songs is worthy of our reference. The first two scholars have different emphases and different research aspects, but they all have clear and distinct opinions, which are worth reading. The emotional charm of The Book of Songs is everywhere.