In fact, in the Book of Songs, not only Guanju, but also a large number of poems such as Taoyao and Jianjia all embody this ideal aesthetic relationship. "Jia Jian" has promoted the aesthetic experience of love to the height of the subject's philosophical thinking about time and space and life.
Guanju is a folk song of the Zhou Dynasty. The Zhou Dynasty was a period in China's history in which subjective rationality was highly advocated. The rulers constructed a whole set of ethical and moral system with the patriarchal concept of consanguinity as the core, so the aesthetic concept was correspondingly imbued with a strong ethical and moral color. The early Confucianism took "harmony" as the beauty, regarded the perfection of the subject's merits as the ultimate pursuit, and respected human nature to a certain extent. In The Analects of Confucius Advanced, Confucius was devoted to Ceng Zi's answer, so we can see that Confucius demanded that the "rule by courtesy" and rational norms of society be turned into people's conscious demands from nature-the early Confucianism did not destroy people's naturalness. Reflected in the aesthetic values of love, it is the characteristics of the beauty of "harmony" and the beauty of human nature that shines in Guanju. While affirming the naturalness of human beings, it also takes social rationality as a conscious requirement, emphasizing ethical and moral concepts and embodying the aesthetic value orientation of ideal love as a society. Only in this way, "Guanju" was able to rank among the top 3 poems and was highly praised by later generations. In addition, folk is a free world, which provides suitable growth soil and temperature for this aesthetic pursuit of love.
However, such an ideal aesthetic value orientation of love is only a flash in the pan in the mainstream discourse. In the subsequent social and historical development, the cold chastity archway standing in the wind and rain is the basic image of love, which shows the truth of historical development. The light of humanity shining in the aesthetic values of love in the pre-Qin period.
The above is its emotional beauty.
This poem also uses some rhyming words with two tones to enhance the harmonious beauty of the tone and the vividness of the characters. For example, "gentle and graceful" is a rhyme; "Staggered" is a double tone; "Tossing" is both a double tone and a rhyme. Use such words to modify actions, such as "tossing and turning"; Imitate the image, such as "My Fair Lady"; Describe the scenery, such as "jagged shepherd's purse", all lively and vivid, full of sound and emotion. Liu Shipei's Miscellaneous Notes on Papers says: "In ancient times, the sound of ... proverbs mostly followed the nature of nature, and the reason why it could be homophonic was that one sentence was Ye Yun, and the other was that the words with double rhymes were used between sentences." Although this poem is different from Ye Yun's, the use of double-tone rhyming words has maintained the simple and natural style of ancient poetry.
in terms of rhyme, this poem adopts the way of even sentences entering rhyme. This even rhyme dominated the form of Chinese classical poetry for more than two thousand years. Moreover, the whole article is rhymed three times, and the word "zhi" of empty word's foot does not rhyme, but the previous word of empty word is rhymed. This uneven change in rhyme greatly enhances the sense of rhythm and musical beauty of poetry.