However, the elegance in the Book of Songs is different from the elegance we understand now. Many fragments in the Book of Songs are descriptions of common things in life, and the most representative one is the wind in July. The whole poem shows the living conditions of the people at that time for one year.
For example:
In May, the tiger moves its stocks, and in June, the pheasant vibrates its feathers. July in the wild, August in Yu. I was at home in September, and crickets came under my bed in October.
I smothered the rats in the dome and shoved them at the door. My wife and son said that they would change their years and enter this room.
The translation is
In May, the grasshopper bounced its legs, and in June, the weaver girl flapped its wings. Crickets are in the fields in July and come under the eaves in August. Crickets enter the door in September and get under my bed in October.
block the rat hole, smoke the rats, seal the windows and doors, and tell my wife and children to live in a new house next year.
It can be seen that the Book of Songs is a poem of life, with natural breath and sincere feelings. It is not the elegance of high and low music now, but a typical example of vulgarity and elegance.
Let's take a look at another kind of poetry. There are a lot of poems about husbands who have served abroad for four years in the Book of Songs. Wei Feng Bo Xi is one of them:
Bo Xi Xi Xi, the country is rebellious. Bo is also the forerunner of the king.
from the east of my uncle, my head is like a flying canopy. Is there no ointment? Who is suitable for it!
Translated:
My husband is really brave, and he is really a hero of the country. My husband, the abbot, became the vanguard of the king.
since her husband left for the east, his hair is messy like a flying canopy. What kind of ointment is still missing? Decorate my face for whom!
My husband is out fighting for the marquis, and my wife is anxious to leave her sorrow at home. When I think about it carefully, my husband is fighting for the country. According to the poetry with the contemporary theme, he should rejoice and rise to the height of the country and the famous family. In this poem, the disappointing wife only leaves her sorrow, but her husband is gone, lazy to dress up, and her hair is unkempt. Without her husband, who can I dress up for? What does it matter to me that my husband is arrogant outside? I just care about her.
The whole poem is permeated with deep humanistic feelings. In terms of technique, I write the feelings of missing, but I don't directly write dog blood sentences such as tears, but I am lazy in dressing and contrast, and the state of life is vividly on paper. Compared with direct lyric, it is full of tension.
There are many such poems in the Book of Songs, for example, there are dead moose crowing in the wild, etc. Between the lines of the Book of Songs, you can smell the strong human touch, the smell of oil smoke, the smell of grass and the smell of earth. If what is the elegance of the Book of Songs, it should be like this: the elegance of the Book of Songs is the word "people" capitalized at the back.
All the above are my personal opinions. Except for a few poems, I am too lazy to input them by hand and use the ready-made translation on the Internet directly. I hope to adopt them.