The poem "Guan Ju" mainly uses Xing's artistic techniques. For example, at the beginning of this poem, there is a talk about a dove in the river island. It was originally the poet's words based on the scenery before his eyes. However, the harmonious singing of water birds can also be a metaphor for the courtship of men and women, or the harmonious love between men and women. It is related to the following in the sense of "My Fair Lady" and "A Gentleman's Good Luck". The beauty of this poem lies in the seamless integration of the poet's taste and the natural scenery, which is the artistic realm of the blending of scenes that has always been appreciated by people.
This poem adopts the technique of repeated chapters, with some sentences repeated in each chapter. This reflects a feature of the language of The Book of Songs. The emotion of the poem is sincere and passionate, and the looping chanting structure brings the passionate love to a climax step by step. Each chapter of the poem uses Qixing's artistic techniques to harmoniously integrate the natural scene and the inner emotions of the characters. The scenery contains emotions, and the emotions contain scenes.
"Guanyong" is the first chapter of "The Book of Songs". The whole poem can be divided into three chapters.
Extended information
"Guofeng·Zhounan·Guanju" is the first poem in the "Book of Songs", the first collection of poems in ancient China. It is usually considered to be a descriptive poem. Love songs for men and women in love. This poem skillfully adopts the expression technique of "Xing" in art. In the first chapter, birds sing toward each other and they are in love, evoking the idea of ??a lady accompanying a gentleman.
In the following chapters, the act of picking water chestnuts triggers the protagonist’s crazy love and pursuit of women. The language of the whole poem is beautiful, and it is good at using double voices, overlapping rhymes and overlapping words, which enhances the beauty of the poem's phonology and the vividness of describing people and onomatopoeia.
This short poem "Guofeng·Zhou Nan·Guan Ju" occupies a special position in the history of Chinese literature. It is the first chapter of the Book of Songs, the oldest classic of Chinese literature. Although judging from their nature, some mythological stories should have been produced earlier, but as written records, they are relatively late. So it can be said that when you look at the history of Chinese literature, the first thing you encounter is "Guan Ju".
Reference materials
Baidu Encyclopedia-Guofeng·Zhou Nan·Guan Ju