The Influence of The Book of Songs on Later Poetry

The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in the history of China literature, which indicates that China ancient literature has got rid of the primitive state and entered a mature stage, among which "expressing feelings with poems" has become the pioneering program of China's poems. However, this kind of lyricism is restrained and limited. It expresses a kind of beauty of "neutralization" compatible with reason, forms a gentle and sincere poetic style, and becomes the criticism content of literary theories in past dynasties, which affects the creation of poetry in later generations.