Traditional influence
The Book of Songs has a lofty position and far-reaching influence in the history of China literature, which has laid a fine tradition of China's poetry and thus formed the national characteristics of China's poetry art.
First, realism and traditional spirit.
The Book of Songs is based on real social life, without fantasy and grotesque, and there are few supernatural myths. Sacrifice, feasting and farming described are the products of social economy, etiquette and music culture in Zhou Dynasty. The description of the current situation, war corvee, marriage and love shows the political situation, social life, customs and people's feelings of the Zhou Dynasty. This "hungry people sing about their food, and laborers sing about their affairs."
Second, the tradition of lyric poetry
Since the Book of Songs, lyric poetry has become one of the main forms of poetry.
Thirdly, elegance and literary innovation.
The enthusiasm for reality, strong political and moral consciousness and sincere and positive attitude towards life in The Book of Songs were inherited and carried forward by Qu Yuan, and were summarized as the spirit of elegance by later generations.