Comparison between traditional elegance and literary innovation of lyric poetry
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, nurtured generations of poets and formed the national characteristics of China's poetry art.
The Book of Songs is mainly a collection of lyric poems. Since then, China's poetry has followed the lyrical road opened by The Book of Songs, and lyric poetry has become the main form of China's poetry.
The enthusiasm of paying attention to reality, strong political and moral consciousness and sincere and positive attitude towards life shown in The Book of Songs were summarized as the spirit of elegance by later generations, which directly influenced the creation of later poets.
In The Book of Songs, the lyrical anger with the individual as the main body was inherited by Qu Yuan. "The national wind is lewd but not lewd, and Xiaoya complains but not disorderly. If "Li Sao" is! " (Biography of Qu Yuan in Historical Records) The works of worry and indignation in Li Sao and Nine Chapters are both national tradition and magnanimity. The characteristics of Yuefu poems in Han Dynasty and the generous voice of Jian 'an poets are the direct inheritance of this spirit.
The Book of Songs also had a far-reaching influence on the genre structure and language art of China's poems in later generations. The four-character poems written by Cao Cao, Ji Kang and Tao Yuanming directly inherited the four-character sentence pattern in the Book of Songs.