The Artistic Features of The Book of Songs

The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, formerly known as Poems, or 300 Poems. * * * * 305 poems, 6 poems without words. This book mainly collects works from the early Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period for more than 500 years. The works in The Book of Songs reflect all aspects of life, have profound and rich cultural accumulation, and show the great achievements of China's ancient poetry at first. The artistic features are as follows:

(1) Fu Bixing technique

Fu Shuo's truth is that the poet expresses his thoughts and feelings and related things in a straightforward way.

Bixing means, for example, comparing one thing with another, and the poet has the ability or emotion to use one thing as a metaphor.

Xing is a touching thing to promote Ci, while objective things set off the poet's feelings and cause the poet to sing, so it is mostly at the beginning of the poem.

(2) Sentence patterns and composition

The basic sentence pattern of The Book of Songs is four words, sometimes ranging from two to eight words. The proportion of miscellaneous sentences is very low, and only a few poems are mainly miscellaneous, such as Vatan. Based on the four sentences, it can be inferred that the musical melody of singing the Book of Songs at that time was relatively stable and simple.

The Book of Songs often adopts the form of overlapping words, with only a few changes in word meaning and literal meaning, resulting in the effect of singing and sighing. This is a feature of folk songs, which can strengthen the expression of feelings. Therefore, it is most commonly used in folk songs such as "National Wind" and "Xiaoya", but rarely appears in political poems such as "Ode to Ya" and "Xiaoya".

(3) The different language styles of wind, elegance and ode.

The Book of Songs is divided into three categories according to style, elegance and ode. Poetry was originally a musical song, but due to the loss of ancient music, future generations can no longer understand its musical characteristics of style, elegance and praise.