1, the richness and concreteness of nouns and verbs. The words in The Book of Songs are rich and colorful, with nearly 3,000 words, which constitute a large number of words and express extremely rich life knowledge. The biggest feature of nouns and verbs in The Book of Songs is concretization. The Zhou Dynasty is an era of monosyllabic words. When expressing different individuals of the same kind, it has not yet formed a complex structure based on abstract concepts. So different monosyllabic words are often used to represent different individuals. For example, in The Book of Songs, the abstract general term "horse" is rarely used, but more than 30 special terms with descriptive functions are used. For example, "bustard" refers to black and white hairy horse, and "yellow" refers to yellow and white hairy horse; "Luo" refers to a horse with white hair and black collar. The appearance of these figurative nouns not only shows Zhou people's familiarity with horses, but also shows their extraordinary control and application ability of language. Verbs in The Book of Songs also have figurative features. For example, there are more than 50 verbs describing hand movements, which shows people's meticulous observation of human movements and superb language creation ability.
He is good at describing sound and shape with tautology or disyllabic words. There are many such adjectives in The Book of Songs, which belong to tautology.
Such as death, burning, delay, learning, falling, Yiyi, Jiao Jiao, etc. , double tones such as jagged, hesitant, embarrassed, etc. And tossing and turning, gentle and graceful, carefree and fecundity. Among them, the most tautology words are the monosyllabic words in the era of The Book of Songs.
3. The rhythm of two beats and the musical beauty of language. The main body of the Book of Songs is a four-character poem with two beats, which has a strong
Rhythm and prosody are standardized. The most commonly used rhyming method in The Book of Songs is rhyming every other sentence. The rhyme form of The Book of Songs laid the foundation for the rhyme form of later poems. The use of disyllabic words, reduplicated words and standard rhymes makes the language of The Book of Songs have a strong sense of music and rhythm.
4. The style of repeating chapters. The important feature of the style of The Book of Songs is the repetition of chapters, that is, a poem consists of several parts.
Text composition, the words between chapters are basically the same, only a few words have corresponding changes, repeated singing. Repetition, also known as repetition, is a common style in folk songs. On the one hand, because the emotion to be expressed by folk songs is simple and profound, only important repeated singing can fully express feelings; On the other hand, because folk songs are sung orally, this form is easy to remember and recite. The form of repeated singing has influenced the language of The Book of Songs. First of all, it forms some idioms in The Book of Songs, which are not only convenient for memory, but also a skill of language use and a means of expressing the theme. The form of repeated singing also affects the choice of words and sentences in The Book of Songs, because idioms have relatively fixed forms. Therefore, we can only grasp the central word to temper, rely on the transformation of the central word to describe things, write scenes, express feelings, so as to achieve outstanding expression results. For example, the transformation of six verbs in Tangyuan leads to the coherence of action description, the flow of pictures, the deepening of emotions, simplicity and profundity.