From Shun's words in Shangshu Yaodian: "Poetry expresses ambition, songs express eternal life, voices are eternal life, and law is harmonious."
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Poetry expresses aspiration: Poetry is used to express people's aspirations.
Sound is eternal: sound grading long characters: palace, business, angle, sign and feather.
Rhythm and harmony: use rhythm and Lu to coordinate the singing rhythm. Six rhythms and six lyrics: Six rhythms refer to Huang Zhong, Tai Qun, Bin, Yi Ze, Wu She, and Liu Lv refer to Da Lv, Nan Lv,, Jia Zhong.
Poetry is a movement that expresses the author's ambition and needs to be sung for a long time. Five tones are attached to the poem being sung, and the twelve tones are used in coordination with the rhythm.
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Shang Shu Yao Dian recorded the political code during the reign of the ancient Yao Emperor. Starting with textual research and myth analysis, it can be seen that the four sentences of "poetry expressing ambition" were first compiled into Shangshu Yaodian, even at the end of the Warring States Period.
As an important classic of China's research on the political development process around three generations, Shangshu has always been valued by the world. This book is rich in content, covering the achievements of various ancestors. Yao Dian is its first work, which involves the political system, political thought and social system in the so-called Yao period.
Yaodian of Shangshu is known as "the first canon of Chinese civilization", which contains the sources of Chinese civilization in many senses, not only the source of ideological philosophy and spiritual belief, but also the source of life structure and political unity. In this book, on the basis of analyzing the narrative structure and basic content of Yao Dian, the author focuses on the concepts of "time" and "filial piety" contained in the text, leading readers to deeply understand the most touching and beautiful living realm in ancient China and even human history shown in Yao Dian.
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