The Artistic Achievements of The Book of Songs

On the one hand, the artistic achievement of The Book of Songs established the artistic style of poetry, on the other hand, it created the artistic form of poetry.

1, The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, and its artistic achievements are immeasurable. Poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, ***3 1 1.

2. First of all, judging from the artistic style of poetry, The Book of Songs created the realistic style of China's poetry literature. Most of the poems in The Book of Songs are a portrayal of slave social life.

The authors express their direct feelings about real life through perfect artistic images. For example, in July, cutting Tan, writing new books, gentlemen in service, Dongshan, Mang and Baizhou.

3. Secondly, in artistic expression, Fu Bixing is the most prominent in The Book of Songs. "Fu" is a straightforward way to tell stories. "Bi" means metaphor and analogy. "Xing" means to lift things up. Together with Yasong, they are called "six meanings" of poetry.

4. Furthermore, from the perspective of language expression. Mainly four sentences, mixed with two to eight sentences at the same time. Most of them use the method of repeating chapters, singing three sighs, and the sense of rhythm and musical beauty is distinct.

The language is accurate and vivid, rich and colorful, and the use of reduplication and double-tone rhyme is very creative. The comprehensive application of these techniques makes the Book of Songs form a simple and natural artistic style.

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The creative background of The Book of Songs;

The works in The Book of Songs were produced after the downfall of Shang Dynasty in Zhou Wuwang (BC 1066). "Song of Zhou" is the earliest work in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is the work of noble literati. It is mainly composed of ancestral temple music songs and ode to the gods, and some of them describe agricultural production.

Daya is the product of the prosperous period of the Zhou Dynasty and the only remaining epic in ancient China. Xiaoya was born in the late Western Zhou Dynasty and moved eastward. Truffles and Ode to Shang Dynasty were both produced after Zhou Shi moved eastward (770 BC).

The Western Zhou Dynasty replaced the Shang Dynasty, and the great changes in the economic system prompted the society to make great progress in spiritual civilization. As a representative of literature, the appearance of The Book of Songs is an inevitable product of the progress of the times, which in turn promotes the progress of social civilization.

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The composition of the authors of The Book of Songs is very complicated, and their geographical sources are also very extensive. In addition to the music songs produced by music officials in the Zhou Dynasty and presented by officials and scholars, there are many folk songs that were originally circulated among the people. There are different opinions about how these folk songs came to the court.

Some scholars in the Han Dynasty believed that the Zhou Dynasty sent special poets to collect folk songs and understand the advantages and disadvantages of politics and customs. There is another saying: these folk songs are collected by musicians all over the world.

Musicians are officials and experts in charge of music. They compose poems as their profession and collect folk songs to enrich lyrics and tunes. The pleasure of princes is dedicated to the emperor, and these folk songs are gathered in the court. These statements all have some truth.

Music songs collected from various periods and regions are generally considered to be preserved in the music officer of the Zhou royal family-Taishi. They obviously processed, eliminated and modified those works with different faces.

Therefore, the existing language forms of The Book of Songs are basically four-character, and the rhyme system and rhyme rules are basically the same. Some sets of sentences (such as Son of Another Family and Wang Shiyi Bamboo Slips) have appeared in works of different times and places.

In ancient times, the transportation was inconvenient and the language was different. The ballads of various times and regions could not have happened if they were not processed. It can be considered that making official music and collecting folk music is one of the cultural undertakings of the Zhou Dynasty.

In the era of The Book of Songs, it was continuous. There are two points worth noting here: first, from what Confucius said, people's views on the Book of Songs at that time were quite broad.

Many poems that condemn the dark rule and express the love between men and women can still be considered "innocent" as long as they do not exceed a certain limit, that is, legitimate emotional expression. Second, despite this, The Book of Songs is not a simple collection of poems.

It is not only the cultural accumulation of Zhou dynasty, but also the object of daily chanting by nobles. Therefore, although there are many folk songs in it, I'm afraid it can't contain the content that directly conflicts with the socially recognized political and moral principles.

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