There are 300 poems in The Book of Songs, which can be summarized in one sentence: True.
Confucius said in the second section of the second chapter of The Analects of Confucius: "There are 300 poems, one sentence. Say: naive thinking.
The commentary also said: "There are 300 poems about Gaiyan, whether it is a dutiful son, a loyal minister, a resentful man or a worried woman, they are all out of their deepest feelings, and they are straightforward and have no false pretense." So "think innocently" is to show true feelings, not to pretend. This is a high generalization of The Book of Songs, and it is also the key to understand it.
Extended data:
There are 300 poems, thinking innocently, and The Analects of Confucius is the second political work, which is a famous view of Confucius, a great thinker and educator in China, in evaluating The Book of Songs. Because of the great 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.
With a long history of 5,000 years, many poets and their poems and songs, as well as many folk poems and songs, shine like pearls in the sunshine of China. Listening attentively, with the wheel of history, is the classic echo.
The pheasant dove is the closest bird to love; Jia Jian is the closest grass to love. More than 3,000 years have passed, and the sound of "Guan Guan" by the river is still in my ears, as if a man is softly calling the name of the woman he loves, so affectionate but simple; More than 3,000 years have passed, and the Iraqis on the water side are afraid that they are old, but what is more complicated than the Rose Man has long been in their hearts.
Thousands of years of wind and rain, the harp has not been tuned, and the bells and drums have not been knocked; Thousands of years of wind and rain, autumn water soup, reed large lonely past. We left our own voice in the past life, but only the empty shell of memory in this life. When crossing the river, why not turn around, pick the ragged shepherd's purse and enjoy the white dew condensed into frost?
The Book of Songs is the source of China's poems. For us, it may be too long, so long that we can't move without comments. In fact, it is just a folk song, a song of ordinary people, and it is not as far away and out of reach as imagined.
For thousands of years, it is like a flower blooming on the other side, even if it can't be picked, it has always lived in my heart. It is often inadvertently forgotten by us in another era.
When we look for it with the elegance of poetry, examine it with the profundity of classics, and listen with the piety of pilgrimage, it may be the past lives of past lives, the voices that once sounded in our hearts, the songs we sang together, and our pure memories of past lives.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-300 poems, thinking innocently