Formally, the whole poem is connected with a complete labor process only through the transformation of six verbs, such as "Cai", "You", "Duo", "Le", "Wan" and "Yi", which conveys the happy mood brought by labor. In other words, the whole poem only uses eleven different words and two basic sentence patterns-"Pick a slug and make a thin statement of X", which is not bad.
Of course, this overlapping structure does not only exist in the chapter of "cigarettes", but also widely appears in the Book of Songs, especially in the poem "Wind". Fundamentally speaking, this artistic feature comes from the artistic feature of The Book of Songs. Although The Book of Songs is originally a poem that harmonizes with music, it is naturally different from ordinary literati poems, but we seldom understand the Book of Songs from the perspective of songs.
By summarizing the basic formal characteristics of the Book of Songs, we can find that Feng's poems in the Book of Songs are mainly composed of four words with different sentence patterns. The length is mostly two, three or four chapters, and the number of sentences in each chapter is mainly four or six; The overall space is small, and the structure of repeated chapters and sentences is the most prominent.
This poetic structure is quite similar to contemporary pop songs. It not only conforms to the repetition of music tunes, but also conforms to the repetition of lyrics in language. Those small changes in details, such as changes in individual sentences and vocabulary, are precisely the places where poetry can best be expressed, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the central sentence of poetry.
Then, from the perspective of songs, its repetitive structure just meets the needs of song creation and dissemination. In music creation, the repetition of basic tunes is normal, which is manifested in the repetition of poetic forms in language texts. The chapter "Ephedra" is repeated three times with a tune, which is the simplest form and a widely used combination of tunes in the Book of Songs. This form of music, with short chapters, simple word formation, easy to remember and sing, is most suitable for spreading among the masses.
In fact, the two basic sentence patterns of the poem "Ephemera" are "take XX and say XX words", and other poems are derivatives of this sentence. They are widely found in other titles of The Book of Songs, such as Curled Ears and Ephemera. The latter, such as picking flies, picking green, there is still time and so on. This shows that the repetition of Ephedrine is based on a relatively fixed set of words and patterns. This formulaic language and formula is one of the basic methods of poetry creation in The Book of Songs, and it is the artistic skill and creative law formed in the long-term spread and singing of poetry at that time.
As for the six verbs with changing details, it is the pen of language tempering to better express poetry, and it is the central vocabulary carefully carved to realize the change and advancement of the scene. In the poem "Weeping and Weeping", "Picking and weeping" is the basic content of the story, and "How to pick" is the main line of the story development, so the six words expressing "taking action" have become the central words of the whole poem.
For these six verbs, predecessors have many explanations, each with its own merits. Generally speaking, these six words are understood in three groups: the first group is "picking" and "having", which belong to the general writing method of picking, and are interpreted as picking slugs, bluntly saying that there are many slugs; The second group is "duo" and "le", which belong to the detailed description of picking, and are interpreted as picking and picking in the picking process; The third group is "Qian" and "Zhu", which belong to the detailed description of filling things and are explained as the process of pulling up or tucking the skirt to the waist to install cricket.
If you have engaged in similar agricultural picking activities, you will have a clearer understanding of the labor process: women meet to pick slugs, and when they find that there are many slugs in the wild, they keep picking, picking, and finally filling their skirts and returning with them. For the time being, I don't care what slugs are or what the purpose of picking is. Judging from the poem itself, what it describes is actually just a simple and neat work.
Of course, although the poetic picture is simple, it is not boring-in the change of a few words, the scene has been rotated thousands of times, vivid and natural. This is the power of conciseness of keywords and phrases in The Book of Songs. Typical, such as ",","Jiang" and "Cheng" in the poem Lu Mu; For example, the poem "Yao Tao" says "it is appropriate to have a home", "home" and "home"; For example, I haven't seen you for a day, like March, Sanqiu, Three Years Old and Brother Cai in the poem!
To sum up, the basic artistic feature of the poem "Fei Jiao" is the repetition of chapters and sentences and the change of a small amount of words, thus promoting the dynamic development and emotional sublimation of the whole poetic realm. Such superb creative skills just show that it is not a simple folk song, but a work of art polished and reprocessed by professionals.
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