Please take Meng as an example to illustrate the application of metaphor in The Book of Songs.

Bi xing: compare, compare this thing with another thing; Xing, say something else first to cause the lyrics to be sung.

Meng's Bixing Poems:

1, the mulberry has not fallen, and the leaves are luxuriant. There are no mulberries in the nest!

The heroine uses lush mulberry trees to compare the deep affection between men and women when they are unmarried, and uses turtledove's gluttony for mulberries to compare her love. It is both "comparison" and "fun", and "other words are sung first". If a woman longs for love, she will suffer misfortune like a turtledove.

2, the autumn of mulberry, it is yellow and embarrassing.

The withered and yellow falling of mulberry leaves symbolizes women's haggard and abandonment, and the gradual withering of mulberry leaves symbolizes the indifference of husband and wife's affection and expresses women's unhappiness with married life.

Extended data:

Mang is an ancient folk song, which tells a woman's emotional changes and profound experience frankly. It is a vivid portrayal of love scrolls, and it also left valuable information about local conditions and customs at that time for future generations.

This is a short narrative poem mixed with lyricism, which makes a love story true and natural. In this poem, women are affectionate, open-minded and enthusiastic. Even the resentment after marriage is a manifestation of hidden intentions. What a vivid image, understanding, diligence, intelligence, courage, frankness and understanding.

Before marriage, she bravely broke through the shackles of etiquette and resolutely lived with Meng, which was commendable at that time. It stands to reason that married life should be harmonious and beautiful. However, contrary to expectations, in order to protect herself, she was used like an ox or a horse, even beaten and abandoned. The reason is that at that time, women had no position in society and family, but were only vassals of their husbands.

This political and economic inequality determines the inequality between men and women in marriage, which enables Mongolians to play with and abuse women at will with impunity, and have the right to abandon their wives and dissolve their engagement. The word "beginning chaos and ending abandonment" can summarize the evil behavior of self-protection to women.

Therefore, although she bravely broke through the feudal shackles, she ended up with the fate of a woman who resigned under the pressure of her parents' orders and matchmakers' words.

The poet complained bitterly about the injustice of this society, which deepened the ideological significance of this poem. The tragic experience of the heroine in the poem can be said to be the epitome of Qian Qian's female fate which was absolutely oppressed and hurt in the class society, so it can win the admiration of later readers.

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