Similarities and differences in artistic forms between The Book of Songs and Greek poetry

Life is like poetry, and there are two kinds of poems: one is pure poetry and the other is epic. Coincidentally, in the 7th and 8th centuries BC, the great Book of Songs was born in China, and at the same time, the heroic epic Homer with "eternal charm" was produced in ancient Greece. These two poems and epics are actually one of the sources of different cultural spirits between China and the West. The Book of Songs, the first collection of poems in China, describes the panorama of social life in China for about 500 years from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, including hunting and farming, fishing and hunting, animal husbandry, agricultural trade, war corvee, Chun Qing in in my heart forever, secret meeting, first love and yearning ... There are 305 articles. Homer's epic is set in the sea of Wang Yang around ancient Greece and the Trojan War that lasted for 65,438+00 years. This paper describes the dispute between the brave general Alolius and the coach Agamemnon, and the adventure story of Odysseus returning to the kingdom of Ithaca and reuniting with Queen Penelope after the fall of Troy. It is divided into two parts: Iliad and Odyssey, which show the panorama of the early heroic era and praise the heroism and freedom in human nature. Gentle and sincere, blending scenes is the keynote of The Book of Songs. "I used to go to, willow, a; Today, I think, "Rain and snow are raining", "Peach is dying, burning its glory", "Guan Luodove, in Jiangzhou, a gentle and graceful lady, a good gentleman", "Green is in my heart", "Holding your hand, growing old with your son", reading The Book of Songs is like being in the running water of the south of the Yangtze River. Heroes and beautiful women are often the constant protagonists of epic poems (hero and Hero are both heroes in English), while Homer is the swan song of courage and adventure. " Sing, goddess! It sang the anger/rage of Achilles, the son of Peleus, which led to this dangerous disaster, brought/suffered endless sufferings to achaean, drove the powerful souls of many heroes to the funeral ground, and threw their bodies to dogs and vultures as food, thus practicing Zeus' will. ""All the gods and mortals driving chariots slept soundly all night, but the sweetness of sleep was not combined. "There are praises to the fighting spirit and fearless courage of heroes, to the heroic epic cause of warriors, to the fear of blood and fire and the fate of struggle, struggle, anger and tragedy, to the infatuation, loyalty and respectable character, whether Aganon, arrogant Ahlerius, Helen of easy virtue or indomitable Odysseus. All characters have distinct personalities. " Poems Expressing Aspiration, The Book of Songs and Homer's Epic, one eulogizes the agricultural spirit and local complex, and the other eulogizes the brave struggle and adventurous spirit at sea; One is the display of warm humanistic care and simple natural quiet life, the other is the interpretation of heroism and the worship of free will; An impression of expressing "self", describing "one's own weapon", focusing on the taste of a scene, only writing fragments of life, writing the historical events of the whole life, the whole society and even the whole nation, which is "the history of national visualization" (Hegelian language); One eulogizes family, affection, love, ethics, one highlights personal value, honor and heroic destiny; One is realistic, true and simple, based on the description and description of real life, reflecting solid realism, and the other is full of passion and fantasy, with religious and mythical colors, reflecting heroic romanticism; The short system of reciting and expressing scenery, the huge system of expressing emotion ... aren't these differences the generalization and origin of different cultural spirits between Chinese and Western nations? We like poetry as well as epics. This world should have warm poems and heroic epics. But poetry and epic are produced in different environments and conditions. In ancient China, there were only poems but no epics (except the epics of ethnic minorities, such as King Gelsall in Tibet and Jianger in Mongolia), which was due to the real life and cultural environment. Because China culture is rooted in agricultural civilization, different from marine civilization and nomadic civilization, it requires higher stability, and arranges its own production and life only according to the changes of the four seasons, thus cultivating a character of self-discipline, non-expansion and non-adventure. On the contrary, he showed great pain in the exile caused by the war corvee. Therefore, an idyllic and stable life is people's yearning, but it is impossible to produce a heroic epic. In addition, religion has a great influence on epic, which is full of imagination and myth. China is a pragmatic nation, and it is also a nation that loves nature and peace. The ideal goal of life is often a poetic or realistic life. Philosophy and religious thoughts are neither strong nor shallow, and they lack tragic consciousness. It is natural that epic cannot be produced. But China has no epic, which is by no means to say that there is no epic life in reality. For thousands of years, we have struggled with the sky, the earth, and people. Isn't this a real epic? "Fight with the day, fun! Fighting the ground is fun! Fighting with people is fun! "Isn't this the embodiment of the epic spirit?