Feng Weimeng is a poem in The Book of Songs, the first collection of poems in ancient China. This is a poem about a woman who abandoned her wife and told the tragedy of her marriage. With great sadness, the heroine of this poem recalls the sweetness of love life and the pain of being abused and abandoned by her husband after marriage, expresses her remorse and decisive attitude, and profoundly reflects the oppression and destruction of women in ancient society on love and marriage issues.
The whole poem adopts realistic creative techniques, alternating fu and bi xing, and uses such expressive techniques as comparison, truthfulness, metonymy and calling for help. The timbre is sonorous and natural, full of true feelings, showing high artistic achievements.
Content details
This poem is divided into six chapters, each with ten sentences. Chapter one, tracing back to one's marriage is decided by first love; The second chapter describes that he fell in love, broke through the shackles of the matchmaker's words and married himself; In the third chapter, she tells a group of innocent and beautiful young girls, tells them not to indulge in love, and points out the inequality between men and women.
The fourth chapter, expressing resentment against self-protection, points out that this is not the fault of women, but the willfulness of self-protection; The fifth chapter, then describes her hard work and abuse after marriage, as well as her brother's ridicule and self-injury misfortune; The sixth chapter describes the love in childhood and the deviation today, denounces the hypocrisy and deception of self-protection, and firmly expresses the feelings of self-protection.