The Analects of Confucius? Yang Huo ",the original text is: Confucius said:" What is a boy's poem? Poetry can be appreciated, observed, grouped and resented. Your father is far away, and you know the names of birds, animals and plants better. "
This is the social function of literary works put forward by Confucius.
Xing means that poetry conveys a kind of power to inspire life to readers through intention, so that people can get a kind of beautiful enjoyment from poetry appreciation.
View means that poetry truly reflects social politics and moral fashion, so people can observe the gains and losses of politics and the rise and fall of customs.
However, Qun believes that poetry can make people exchange feelings and strengthen unity.
Resentment means that literary works have the function of interfering with reality and criticizing society.
Confucius' theory of "Guan Xing Qun Fen" is the source of realistic literary criticism theory, which has a very positive impact on later realistic literary criticism theory and realistic literary creation.