Han Guang is selected from the "Zhou Nan" chapter of "The Book of Songs".
1. Basic information
"Zhou Nan·Han Guang" is a poem in the ancient Chinese realist poetry collection "The Book of Songs". This is a love song about a man who pursues a woman but cannot get her. The lyrical protagonist is in love with a beautiful girl, but he is always unable to fulfill his wish. His emotions are entangled and he cannot escape. Facing the vast river, he sang this moving poem and poured out his melancholy. The characters in the whole poem are vivid and the poetic logic is strict.
2. Creation background
"Zhou Nan·Han Guang" was produced in the Jianghan River Basin of the Zhou Dynasty. Regarding the theme of this poem, when the protagonist was chopping firewood, the tall trees and the vast river aroused his emotions. He thought of the hard-to-find girl he admired in his heart, and he felt infinite melancholy, so he sang this love song. Some people also think that this is an admonition poem to advise the children of the Zhou family not to pursue southern women.
3. Overall Appreciation
From the external structure and form analysis, "Zhou Nan·Han Guang" has three chapters. The first chapter is independent, and the last two chapters are overlapping, which is the same as "The Book of Songs" "There seems to be no difference between the other folk songs with repeated chapters and verses.
But the poet's disappointment in courtship and the unattainable image of the upper-class Han women seem to be hidden in the chorus of this long song and sigh. From the perspective of artistic conception, the three chapters are connected layer by layer and have their own poetic inner logic.
The basic information and creative background of "The Book of Songs":
1. Basic information
The "Book of Songs" is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry, the earliest one. A collection of poems, which collects poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (11th century BC to 6th century BC), with a total of 311 poems, 6 of which are Sheng poems, that is, they only have titles and no content, and are called the six Sheng poems. ("Nanbei", "Baihua", "Hua millet", "Yougeng", "Chongqiu" and "Youyi") reflect the social outlook of about five hundred years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the late Zhou Dynasty.
2. Creation background
Zhouyuan, the ancestral home of the Zhou Dynasty, was suitable for agriculture. Poems such as "Shengmin", "Gongliu" and "Mianmian Gualu" in "Daya" all show that The Zhou Dynasty relied on agriculture to prosper, and the development of agriculture promoted social progress. After King Wu defeated Zhou, Zhou became the ruler of the world. The family patriarchal system, private ownership of land, slaves, and the rule of aristocratic lords became the social and political characteristics of this historical period.