How to understand that The Book of Songs embodies the poetry of China people?

When it comes to splendid China culture and China art, people have to think of poetry. Poetry has made great achievements in China culture. As a unique cultural form, it participates in and promotes, reflects and reflects the historical development of human culture, and occupies an extremely important position in the whole cultural system of China.

All nations and countries have their own unique customs and cultural characteristics. Western culture is represented by philosophy, and poetry is the most representative part of China culture. If the deep structure of western culture lies in their philosophy, then the highest wisdom of the Chinese nation lies in poetry.

Most people in China grew up with poetry. We began to learn to recite poems. When we were young, we recited Tang poems. A little bigger, we will recite the Book of Songs, Songs of the Song Dynasty, Songs of the South and Lisao ... from "I woke up easily in this spring morning, and birds were singing everywhere" to "When we were young, we left home"; From "the light rain in the sky is crisp" to "the leaves fall like the spray of a waterfall"; Recite "The sword is grey, and the white dew is frost"; Recite "Yang Liuan Xiaofeng Canyue"; Recite "the Shanghai River is separated from the blue sea, and the autumn orchid is spied" ... If you don't manage and don't understand, then recite it first. In the days to come, you will slowly experience, savor, read poems in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and experience the joys and sorrows in poems ... It is precisely because of this that people often describe the Chinese nation as a "poetic nation" and say that China culture is a "pan-American culture". Although we know nothing about these habits, these judgments have indeed been formed, and they have their own basis, and they are not created out of thin air.

China culture is "the culture of poetry", because "poetry" occupies a special position in China's art, from The Book of Songs to Chu Ci in the Warring States, to Yuefu in the Han and Wei Dynasties, from Tang Poetry and Song Poetry to Yuanqu, and to modern free poetry. Although the forms of poetry are ever-changing, it always occupies the dominant position in China's art and permeates other art forms that appear later. The Chinese drama "takes poetry as its word" and the novel "takes poetry as its evidence". And calligraphy should also write poems, and painting should also mention poems. Whenever, we should pay attention to "painting in poetry and poetry in painting". Traditionally, people regard "artistic conception" as the highest goal of all arts, while poetry pays more attention to artistic conception. Therefore, in this sense, it is no exaggeration to say that traditional China is a "country of poetry".

Secondly, because poetry is everywhere, its spirit dominates the whole spirit of China's art, and there are poems where there are people: drinking and talking about poetry; Play the piano, dance and sing poems; When wielding a knife and sword, you recite poems and compose poems. Whether it is a fisherman's song on the water or a woodcutter's song in the forest; Is it the singing of tea pickers on the hillside or the low singing of shepherds on the grass? What they sing is poetry. If the development of art is always based on "life" and always inspires people to think, criticize and guide life, then poetry guides the life of China people. We pursue the ideal realm in poetry and realize the philosophy of life in poetry. Whether we are humming "the silkworm will weave until it dies in spring, and the candle will drain the wick every night" or singing "Since God has given it a gift, let it work! , spin a thousand silver, all come back! " We will experience another realm from it. These excellent poems can often touch people's hearts, make our emotions tremble, invigorate our spirits and broaden our minds. We can never get tired of reading such a good poem. Every time we read a poem, we will have a new feeling. We understand life from poetry and care for life from poetry.

Thirdly, from a linguistic point of view, compared with western language families, the exquisiteness and beauty of Chinese is self-evident. Chinese is characterized by polysemy and fuzziness in vocabulary, flexibility and randomness in grammar, and different colors in pronunciation due to different tones. More importantly, poetry pays attention to the musical features such as antithesis, flatness and rhyme, so poetry has the beauty of harmonious phonology. The language of a nation is not only a special way of expression, but also a unique way of thinking, feeling and even existence. Poetry is conducive to vivid expression and artistic display. Since ancient times, China people have treated the world with a poetic thinking and attitude. Gu Hongming said: "Chinese is a language of the soul, a language of poetry, which is poetic and charming, which is why the prose information of an ancient China person reads like a poem."

Fourthly, neither spontaneous artistic creation nor conscious artistic theory in ancient China separated sensibility from rationality, nor did it turn art into science or movement. In sculpture, painting, calligraphy, novels, operas and even garden art, China people did not imitate nature in a purely scientific way from the beginning, and did not reproduce life in a purely objective way; China people knew from the beginning how to "imagine things, think about feelings" and how to give full play to their imagination. Know how to cultivate one's emotions, instead of pursuing the real illusion of time and space; Know how to use stylized rules and virtual means to turn stage and props into an inseparable part of performance activities; China people do not pursue simple symmetry and mechanical composition, but know how to deal with the dialectical relationship between yin and yang, movement and fiction, and fact. Therefore, no matter sculpture, painting, novel or calligraphy, there is always an aesthetic effect of "vivid charm", which has reached the spiritual realm of "climbing the mountains and feeling the sea, overflowing with meaning" in China traditional opera culture and garden art, making people always have a feeling of "only knowing what it is, not saying what it says" and realizing a kind of "wandering"

There are no discus throwers in China, no Bible, no Hamlet, and no Palace of Versailles ... But there are The Book of Songs, Li Sao, A Dream of Red Mansions, the Forbidden City and Suzhou Gardens in China ... If you compare them, you will find who pays more attention to the integration of heaven and earth, who cares more about the unity of heaven and man, and who knows more about harmony and beauty. There are poems in China's articles, novels, plays, songs and paintings. Even the rocks in the garden, the plaques in pavilions, high walls and courtyard doors are full of poems. China ancient scholar-officials did not understand astronomy, calendar calculation and philosophy of science, but they had to use piano, chess, calligraphy and painting to cultivate their body and mind. Isn't this unique way of behavior and recuperation a remarkable symbol of "poetic culture"?

Poetry is a special angle to observe the history of human mind and humanistic spirit. Poetry is the heart of heaven and earth, and the most exquisite part of China's "cultural mind" lies in poetry. Therefore, China culture is a poetic culture.