What kind of criticism is the concept of innocence in China's poems?

"Innocence" is not only the fundamental evaluation of the Book of Songs by Confucius, but also the most basic requirement put forward by Confucius for poetry creation, which shows that he attaches great importance to the ideological content of poetry. Of course, he also advocates "perfection, gentleness and sincerity" and the organic unity of content and form.

Naively thinking and expressing "The Analects of Confucius is the government" is the viewpoint of Confucius, a thinker and educator in the Spring and Autumn Period in China, who commented on The Book of Songs. Due to the influence of Confucius and The Book of Songs in China's ideological and cultural history, people, including contemporary youth, have made various interpretations of this view.

The idea of "being naive" can't be said to people. Thinking, longing in my heart. There is nothing wrong with daring to show people what you think. Zhu put this sentence in the second chapter of On Politics, quoted Confucius' evaluation of The Book of Songs, and warned politicians to be open-minded and aboveboard.

"Thinking innocently", as Yang Bojun said in his annotation, is an unintentional phonetic word with no meaning at all. It was Confucius who creatively interpreted it as "thinking". Yu Yue in Qing Dynasty also said so in Qu Yuan's Essays. I agree with their views in the explanation.

In the theory of literary creation, Confucius emphasized the author's attitude and creative motivation. Cheng Yichuan said: "Those who think innocently are sincere." That is to say, "making a statement honestly" needs the expression of true temperament, that is, the poet should have true temperament, realize "writing to carry the Tao" in the complicated content, and achieve "music without lewdness, sadness without injury" in the objective effect (Bashu).