"Decline" is taken from The Book of Songs, National Style and Great Unity. According to previous research, this land should belong to the rule of Weiguo. Decline is about western weekends and early Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
During the Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou Dynasties, the patriarchal clan system gradually matured and stabilized, and the whole society was a slave society. Since the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the aristocratic hereditary system has been implemented. These nobles include the royal family and officials at the bottom, such as scholar-officials, and the bottom is ordinary people.
During this period, the social stratum became a pyramid, and the flow of the whole stratum almost stagnated. In other words, your background will hardly change when you get old.
It is precisely because of the rigidity of this system that land is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people, and social contradictions eventually led to the demise of the Zhou Dynasty.
From some poems in The Book of Songs, we can find that people's life in this period was extremely hard. Moreover, we can see people's dissatisfaction with those in power, and they have a preliminary will to oppose this system.
Next, let's take a look at this song "Decline" which expresses the grievances of working people.
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It's getting dark It's getting dark Why don't you go home? Why is Hu Weiwei exposed because of Wei Jun?
It's getting dark It's getting dark Why don't you go home? The bow of the micro-monarch, Hu Weiwei in the mud?
"Decline, decline, Hu Bugui? Because of Wei Jun, Hu Weiwei is exposed? " The "form" in poetry is modal particles; "Slight" means (sunlight) falling, dusk or darkness; "Wei Jun" means "if it is not a monarch"; "In dew" is an inverted usage, which means "in dew". It's dark, it's dark, why don't you go home? If it weren't for the monarch, how could it be in the dew?
These two poems describe that the working people are treated inhumanely, and they work so hard for the nobility. People in this period were attached to the nobility and had little freedom.
"Decline, decline, Hu Bugui? Wei Jun's bow, Hu Weizhi is in the mud? " The "bow" in these two poems means body. It's dark, it's dark, why don't you go home? If it weren't for the princess's body, how could it still be in the mud?
The meaning of the two chapters is similar, but the word "reason" is replaced by "bow". Although it is only a word change, we can see the originality of the author's words.
"Therefore" and "Bow" make the melody of the upper and lower chapters rhyme and make the meaning of the poem more full and true. In the previous chapter, the author is exposed, and the description of the combination of reality and reality in the next chapter stimulates the reader's imagination. The people are stuck in the mud, no one can save them, and those nobles will not understand their hard work. They are very disgusted with nobles, and this artistic conception expressed in poetry has attracted the attention of later generations and has been used in classical poetry.
The feeling of "decline" in reading
Decline is a complaint song of the working people at the bottom to those in power, which leads to their inhuman treatment by rhetorical questions. This is ironic to those nobles, and this is also the voice of the working people at that time.
This poem is very short, with only 32 words throughout. However, its rhyme is harmonious and the structure of the article is novel, especially after the word change. There are two words, three words, four words and five words in The Book of Songs, so many changes in structural sentences are very rare in The Book of Songs. This is also a highlight of the decline.
Decline profoundly reflects real life and is of great significance to the study of ancient times.
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Fang Yurun said in the Primitive Book of Songs: "The language is shallow and deep, and China has infinite meaning, which has not been read lightly by unintentional people."
There are not many words meaning "decline", but the meaning is deep. It contains a lot of truth, which can't be seen by careless and reckless people after reading it.