What is the national wind?

Feng is a Zhou Dynasty folk song included in The Book of Songs, the first collection of poems in the history of China literature. Including the folk songs of about fifteen vassal States from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. The folk songs of Zhou Dynasty with "national style" reflect the real life of working people with colorful pictures, express their unfair treatment in the situation of exploitation and oppression and their belief in striving for a better life, and are the source of realistic poetry in China.

"National Style" describes things with simple language and reflects social reality with simple life paintings, which has been well reflected in "National Style" and has become its remarkable artistic feature.

There are 15 groups of "national styles", which are divided into Nan Zhou, Zhao Nan, Changfeng, Changfeng, Fengwei, Feng Wang, Zhengfeng and Qifeng.

Guo Feng is generally regarded as the literary essence of The Book of Songs, and later generations call it coquettish with Qu Yuan's Li Sao. Stylistically, the national wind has a strong local color; From the content point of view, Guo Feng is mostly a folk song, and the author is mostly a folk singer except a few aristocrats.

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The national wind was a popular local song at that time, with local color. In terms of content, most of them are folk songs. The authors are mostly folk singers, but there are also nobles.

Sociologists believe that the theme of national love songs comes from people's impromptu gatherings. In ancient rural festivals, young men and women take turns singing and writing ballads in competitions. "National Wind" is an anthology of this kind of folk songs, which was sung in the court, and later the nobles also created poems with similar content and style.

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"National Style" is the essence of The Book of Songs, and it is a bright pearl in the treasure house of China ancient literature. In July, we saw the bloody life of slaves, and in Getan, we realized the awakening of the class consciousness of the exploited. Disgruntled slaves boldly asked parasites and vampires who got something for nothing: "If you don't get enough, you can't get enough." If you don't raise or hunt, is there a county badger in Huzhan Pavilion? "

Some poems also describe the direct struggle between laborers and the ruling class in order to obtain the right to subsistence. In this regard, Shuo has a shocking power. There are some poems in the "national style" that reflect the great pain brought to the people by the military corvee, such as Yin, Bo and Serviceman, which are the representative works of this kind of poems.

There are also many love poems of "national style". It is an important theme of this kind of love poems to reflect the great pain brought to women by unreasonable marriage and express the yearning and pursuit of young men and women for a happy marriage. Meng and Meng show us such a picture of life. And Bai Zhou also has a distinct and strong sense of resistance.

Love songs with healthy and optimistic tone (such as Quiet Girl and Papaya) add a sense of harmony and joy to love poems. All these are true expressions of the thoughts and feelings of the working people.

There are also many ballads satirizing and lashing the ruling class in National Wind, such as Xintai, Nanshan and Zhu Lin.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-The Book of Songs and National Style