First of all, from a formal point of view, the Book of Songs is the first collection of poetry in my country.
The literary characteristics (artistic characteristics) of the Book of Songs: ? The Book of Songs is a beacon of ancient verse and poetry. The source of their high artistic achievements can be seen from the following aspects: Realistic creative techniques? In various works of the Book of Songs, they use a simple language and touching pictures of life to express their understanding of reality and their understanding of reality. love and hate.
? This realistic creative technique is well reflected in the national style, and has become its significant artistic feature, giving great influence to later generations of poetry.
? "July" uses the technique of sketch to describe the intense working life of the serfs for a year, like a series of genre paintings, real and vivid.
? More poems in the national style express the author's understanding and criticism of society by describing specific things and highlighting one aspect of life or character characteristics. ? "Yellow Bird", the author uses The theme of the burial of living people is used to express people's sympathy and regret for the victims. "Zhi'an" uses the instructions of Zhengfu's imaginary relatives to express the pain caused to the people by corvee and military service at that time.
? Those folk songs in the national style that expose the scandals of the rulers, or repeatedly criticize, or bitterly ridicule, or severely curse, all profoundly express the people's hatred of the exploiters. , is also a powerful impact on the unfair reality.
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Image creation? In terms of image creation, The Book of Songs also expresses the characteristics of realist art. In most lyric poems, the author expresses their happiness and joy through the protagonist’s direct inner talk. Sadness arouses the reader's sympathy, and allows the reader to see the protagonist's actions and character traits, as well as their different appearances.
? "褰裳" is a very short poem, but the girl's voice and smile emerge very vividly.
? The last chapter of "Death in the Wild" is a monologue of a young girl, which vividly expresses her inner excitement while waiting for her lover to meet.
The softness and meekness of the heroine in "Gu Feng" contrasts strongly with the strong and decisive heroine of "Rogue", and the image is outstanding.
Vivid descriptions: The descriptions of scenery in the Book of Songs also play a role in highlighting the characters. For example, in "A gentleman at work", the poet uses vivid scenes of livestock and poultry returning in the evening to set off the heroine standing by the door. The sad mood of looking forward to returning home is simple, simple and touching.
? "Jianjia" uses the bleak scene of autumn with "Jianjia is green and the dew is as white as frost" to set off the emptiness and melancholy of the protagonist pursuing the one he likes but not seeing him.
? "Taoyao" is inspired by the bright and blooming peach blossoms, which sets off the radiant appearance of the girls who are about to get married.
Diversity of form? The Book of Songs is mostly in four-character form, with rhymes in every other sentence, but it is not rigid and full of variety. Many poems often break the four-character pattern and use two-character sentences. , three-character, five-character, six-character, seven-character or eight-character sentences.
For example: "Fa Tan" is a miscellaneous poem, but it is not difficult to pronounce. Instead, it feels well-proportioned and reads with a natural rhythm. The overlapping of chapters is another feature of the Book of Songs in form. The repeated singing increases the musicality and rhythm of the poem, and also conveys the poet's feelings and the charm of the poem, such as: - "Cai Ge" expresses the lovers' deep longing in repeated singing, "One day" "Not like Sanqiu" is still alive in the people's language today. The refined and beautiful language? The language of the Book of Songs is accurate, beautiful, and full of imagery. In particular, the authors used double tones (such as "Zancha") based on the characteristics of Chinese phonetic and rhyme coordination. "Xuanhuang", etc.), overlapping rhymes (such as "Cui Wei", "Yao Yao", etc.), and overlapping characters (such as "Yao Yao", "忡忡", etc.) are used to describe the delicate and tortuous emotions and the characteristics of natural scenes, so they have received greater attention. artistic effect.
Briefly describe the status and influence of "The Book of Songs" in literary history.
The ideological and artistic achievements of "The Book of Songs" occupy a high position in the history of Chinese and foreign culture. Its influence on later generations of literature is also profound and huge, mainly from both its ideological content and artistic skills. In terms of ideological content, the Book of Songs has the greatest influence on later generations of literature, especially the realist spirit of "the hungry sing about their food, the laborers sing about their deeds" expressed in the folk songs of the national style. Poets and writers care about the fate of the country and the suffering of the people.
? Folk songs of the past dynasties, from the Yuefu of the Han and Wei dynasties to the ballads of modern times, have profoundly reflected the realist spirit of the Book of Songs.
? In the early Tang Dynasty, Chen Ziang criticized the "beautiful and complex" poems of Qi and Liang Dynasty with the words "elegance but no composition" and "excitement and beauty". "Experience personal elegance" as his creative direction.
? Bai Juyi also used "elegance" and "Bixing" as criteria, summed up the achievements of realist poetry creation since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and put forward the idea that "articles are written together to suit the time, and poems are written together to suit the event". It is argued that poets such as Li Bai also inherited and carried forward the realism spirit of the Book of Songs.
In terms of artistic techniques, the Book of Songs uses several techniques such as fu, comparison and xing.
Its accurate, beautiful, and vivid language and the authors use double tones, overlapping rhymes, and overlapping words to describe the delicate and tortuous emotions and the characteristics of natural scenes based on the characteristics of Chinese phonetics. , which had a great influence on the literary creation of later generations (especially in terms of rhyme).
Its syntax is mainly four-character (also two, three, five, six, seven, and eight characters), and it also inspired later literary forms such as Han Fu, Yuefu, Tang poetry, Song lyrics, and Yuan music. 's appearance.
? All in all, the Book of Songs is the first of its kind in terms of ideological content or artistic techniques. As Zhang Xuecheng said: "The literature of later generations...mostly originated from the Book of Songs."
"This shows that the Book of Songs has a lot of influence on the literature of later generations.
Feng, elegance, ode, fu, comparison, xing