Cultural Interpretation of China's Poems

China's classical poetry is one of the most prominent representatives of China culture, which can be traced back to ancient times without words. The Book of Rites records a sacrificial ballad in Shennong era: "The land is against its house! Water belongs to its valley! Insect, don't do it Vegetation, return to its jersey! " "Wu Yue Chun Qiu" also recorded a ballad "Dage" reflecting the hunting of primitive people: "Break bamboo, continue bamboo, fly soil and drive away meat." These songs are typical examples of the combination of poetry, music and dance, which is an important feature of China's poetry.

In the 6th century BC, The Book of Songs was compiled into a book, including local folk music 160, elegant music 3 1, 74 ditties, 40 sacrificial music, * * 305 songs and 6 sheng music, and the score was lost. The producing areas include Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong and northern Hunan. There are poems in The Book of Songs that reflect the joy of feasting, such as Xiaoya? Luming Literature "; There are also poems reflecting the war, such as Xiaoya? June "; Zheng Feng and other famous love poems? Yanzi; Feng Wei who satirizes reality? Cut sandalwood; There are also a number of large-scale royal epics of the Zhou Dynasty that reflect the founding history of the Zhou Dynasty, such as Sheng Min, Gongliu, Mian, Yi Di and Daming.

The Book of Songs, which is mainly composed of four words and repeated sentences, shows China's lyrical national literature characteristics. Since then, China's poetry has embarked on a lyrical road, and lyric poetry has become the main form of China's poetry. The enthusiasm for reality, strong political and moral consciousness and sincere and positive attitude towards life in The Book of Songs are summarized as the spirit of elegance, which has become the most basic and far-reaching tradition of China's poetry.

On the 14th day of the first month in 339 BC, Qu Yuan, the first great man in the history of China poetry, was born. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang compiled works such as Qu Yuan and Song Yu. A book "Songs of the South" was written, including twenty-three songs of Lisao, nine songs (1 1), nine chapters of Tian Wen (9) and Evocation. Among them, "Li Sao" takes loyalty to the monarch and patriotism as the theme and vanilla beauty as the symbol, which repeatedly generates lingering grief and indignation and creates a loyal and noble hero image.