The Position, Style and Six Meanings of The Book of Songs in the History of Literature

Status of The Book of Songs: The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poetry and the earliest collection of poems, which laid the source of poetic realism. The Book of Songs has a lofty position and far-reaching influence in the history of China literature, which has laid a fine tradition of China's poetry and thus formed the national characteristics of China's poetry art.

Style of The Book of Songs: The language form of The Book of Songs is vivid and colorful, which can often achieve "twice the result with half the effort" and "full of emotion". However, the language style and national style of Ya and Song are different. Most of the chapters in Ya and Song use a strict four-character case, with few miscellaneous words, while there are many miscellaneous words in the national style. In "Xiaoya" and "National Style", repeated chapters and sentences are often used, but they are rare in the aspect of appealing to both refined and popular tastes. Many modal particles, such as, zhi, zhi, die, Hu, er, yi and ye, are used in national customs. These modal particles have also appeared in Ya and Ode, but they are not as numerous and varied as those in National Custom. The wonderful use of modal particles in national style has enhanced the vividness and vividness of poetry and reached a vivid situation. The different linguistic features of elegance, praise and national style reflect the changes of the times and society, as well as the differences in the identity of the creative subject. "Ode to Ya" is mostly a work of the Western Zhou Dynasty, written by nobles, which embodies the dignity of "Elegant Music". "National Custom" is mostly works in the Spring and Autumn Period, mostly collected from the people, which more embodies the freedom and boldness of the new voice and is close to the spoken language at that time.

Six meanings of The Book of Songs: The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, elegance and vulgarity, and praise. "Wind" is the tune of various vassal states; Elegant Style is a positive music in Zhou Zong. "Ode" is the joy of ancestral temple sacrifice. As for "Elegance" and "Xiaoya", they should be divided into music. "A quiet person, who talks nonsense, should sing" Elegance "; Those who are diligent and polite should sing Xiaoya. The artistic techniques in The Book of Songs are summarized as "Fu, Bi and Xing", which are called "Six Meanings" together with "Feng, Ya and Song".