Why the Book of Poetry is the originator of modern poetic style

The basic principle of realism is to reproduce life according to the actual style of life, and to express the author's thoughts and feelings and to reflect the essence or some aspects of the essence of social life through the real, concrete and figurative depiction of life. And the Book of Poetry, as one of the earliest general collections of poetry in China, is precisely to describe and express the author's true feelings from all aspects of real life, such as love, labor, war, resistance, and sacrifice.

There are four main reasons for saying that the Book of Songs is the source:

1. The Book of Songs was written earlier. It was formed in the Zhou Dynasty as a written record. It is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry, the earliest collection of poetry, a collection of poetry from the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (11th to 6th centuries before), ***311, the content reflects the social landscape of the early Zhou Dynasty to the late Zhou Dynasty for about five hundred years.

2. The Book of Songs "reflects the real details and essence of life in a factual way", creating a precedent for realist literature. The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvée, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and banquets, and even celestial phenomena, landforms, animals and plants, etc. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.

"The Book of Songs" focuses on reality and expresses the true feelings triggered by real life. This creative attitude gives it a strong and profound artistic charm, and it is the first milestone of Chinese realist literature. The most important and essential aspect of the Book of Songs is its creative orientation, which inspired realist literature. This is manifested in most of the chapters of the Book of Songs. For example, the poems of "State Wind" from the subject matter, mainly include: love and marriage poems, labor poems, poems of conscripts, poems of women, protest against exploitation and oppression poems, satirical poems of scandalous acts, poems of the misfortune of the life and so on, in addition to war poems, poems of patriotism, poems of superiority and sadness of the world, poems of praise, poems of mourning, send-off poems, poems of the field and hunting and so on, which accounted for the work of the state winds of 160 more than ninety percent.

4. The emergence of the Classic of Poetry laid the foundation for the formation of realism in China. Its realist cultural content and cultural implications are a treasure worth exploring. It can be called the source of realism. Therefore, we say that the Book of Songs opens up the source of Chinese realism literature.

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