What are the main features of The Book of Songs?

The main features of The Book of Songs: The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poems and the earliest collection of poems. The content is rich, the language image is vivid and colorful, and polysyllabic words and reduplications are widely used. The abundant nouns in The Book of Songs show that the poet has a full understanding of objective things. The concrete and accurate action description shows the poet's meticulous observation and mastery of language.

The sentence pattern of The Book of Songs is mainly four words, four sentences are independent chapters, and there are two to eight words in the middle. The two-beat four-sentence has a strong sense of rhythm and is the basic unit that constitutes the neat rhythm of the Book of Songs.

Background of extended data creation

Joo Won?, the birthplace of the Zhou Dynasty, was suitable for agriculture. Poems such as Gong Liu and Mianmian Guaju in The Scholars all show that Zhou prospered the country with agriculture, and the development of agriculture promoted social progress. After the conquest, the Zhou clan became the master of the world, and the patriarchal clan system, land, slave private ownership and the rule of aristocratic lords became the social and political characteristics of this historical period.

Compared with Shang Dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty promoted the rapid development of social spiritual civilization due to the great changes in the economic system. As a representative of literature, the appearance of The Book of Songs is an inevitable product of the progress of the times, which in turn promotes the progress of social civilization.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-The Book of Songs