On the Artistic Beauty of Nine Songs

The artistic conception of Jiuge is very beautiful. Judging from the content and form of "Nine Songs", it seems to be the embryonic form of the game god song and dance drama. The words "subject and object are my words" in Nine Songs, such as Yu, Wu, Jun, Nv (such as), beauty, childe and so on. , are the titles in the lyrics of musicals. There are only three kinds of lead singers: one is a wizard who plays God, the wizard plays Yang God, and the witch plays Yin God; Second, wizards meet gods, wizards meet yin gods and witches meet yang gods; The third is a wizard who helps sacrifice. Therefore, the structure of the nine songs mostly appears in the form of duets between wizards and witches. Chen once pointed out in Qing Dynasty: "The joy of Nine Songs includes witches and wizards; There are wizards who dance and sing; One witch advocates harmony with many witches. " In this way, "Nine Songs" has a large number of words of mutual affection between men and women, and under the veil of religious ceremonies and the relationship between man and god, it has staged a living drama of love between men and women on earth. This expression of men's and women's feelings is extremely complicated and tortuous: sometimes it is manifested as longing for God, sometimes it is manifested as doubt about God's waiting, sometimes it is manifested as joy of meeting God, and sometimes it is manifested as sadness of parting from God. Judging from the artistic conception of poetry, it is quite unique.