Artistic Achievements of the Book of Poetry:
The Book of Poetry has a high position and far-reaching influence in the history of Chinese literature, laying down the fine tradition of Chinese poetry, and the national characteristics of the art of Chinese poetry are thus originated and formed.
I. Spirit and Tradition of Realism
The Book of Songs is based on the real life of the society, with no delusion and grotesque, and few supernatural myths, and describes rituals, banquets and agricultural affairs, which are the products of the Zhou Dynasty's socio-economics and culture of rites and music, and describes the political and worldly affairs, wars and corvée service, and marriages and romances, which show the political situation, social life, and folklore in the Zhou Dynasty. This spiritual tradition of "singing for the hungry, singing for the laborers" has been inherited and carried forward by later generations.
Second, the tradition of lyric poetry
Beginning with the Classic of Poetry, lyric poetry became one of the main forms of poetry.
Three: Fengya and Literary Innovation
The passionate concern for reality, the strong political and moral consciousness, and the sincere and positive attitude toward life in the Classic of Poetry were inherited and carried forward by Qu Yuan, and were summarized as the spirit of "fengya" by later generations.
Expanded Information:
The Book of Songs, the earliest collection of poetry in ancient China, collected poems from the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (11th to 6th centuries BC), and contains 311 poems, of which six are sheng poems, i.e., only the titles, but not the contents, known as sheng poems, and the six sheng poems (Nanyuanxin, Bailuahua, Huabei, Yukang, Chongwu, and Bailuahua, etc.), Huabi, Yukang, Chongwu, and Yui), reflecting the social landscape of the early Zhou to the late Zhou period of about five hundred years.
The author of the Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of it is unrecognizable. It is said to have been collected by Yin Jifu and compiled by Confucius. In the pre-Qin period, the Book of Poetry was known as the "Poems" or, to round it up, the "300 Poems". It was honored as a Confucian classic during the Western Han Dynasty, and began to be called the Book of Poetry, which is still in use today.
The Poetry Classic is divided into three parts: the Winds, the Elegance, and the Ode.
The "Winds" is a collection of folk songs from various places, which is the essence of the "Classic of Poetry". There are chants of love, labor and other beautiful things, as well as lamentations and anger against oppression and bullying, which are often used in a repetitive manner, and the chapters of a poem are often different only by a few words, which expresses the characteristics of the folk songs.
The "Ya" is divided into the "Daya" and "Xiao Ya", which are mostly ritual poems of the nobles, praying for a good year and celebrating the virtues of their ancestors. The authors of the Daya were aristocrats, but they were dissatisfied with the realities of politics, and in addition to banquet music, sacrificial music and epic poems, they also wrote some satirical poems reflecting the aspirations of the people. The Xiao Ya also contains some folk songs.
The "Ode" is the poetry of the temple rituals. The poems in the "Ya" and "Ode" are of great value in examining early history, religion and society.
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