The works in the Book of Songs that are most characterized by folk songs are

The works in the Book of Songs that are most characterized by folk songs are: Guan Ju, Tan Tan, and Shuo Rat.

The so-called characteristics of folk songs, that is to say, in reflecting the content of the characteristics of "hungry people sing their food, laborers sing their business"; in the structure of the performance of the characteristics of the "repeated chapters and phrases, repeated singing"; in the style of the language has a vivid image, In terms of language style, it is characterized by vivid and colorful images. The folk songs of the Book of Songs have had a profound influence on the development of poetry in later generations, and have become the source of the tradition of realism in Chinese classical literature.

From the point of view of reflecting the content, these poems in the Book of Songs, which are characterized by folk songs, either describe the pains of their year-round hard labor, or eulogize love, or express dissatisfaction with the oppressors, basically reflecting the people's living conditions and thoughts and feelings. For example, in "False Sandalwood", the righteous questioning: "If you don't harvest, why don't you take three hundred market places for your grain? If you don't guard or hunt, why do you think there are badgers in the county?" It has the power to shake the heart.

From the point of view of the structure of performance, most of the poems in the Book of Songs, which are characterized by folk songs, are characterized by overlapping chapters and lines. Many of the heavy chapters in the Book of Songs overlap the same chapter in the whole poem, changing only a few words to show the progress of action or changes in emotion. For example, in Shuo Mouse, "Shuo Mouse, Shuo Mouse, does not eat my millet!

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Shuo rat shuo rat, no eat my wheat!" "The rats and mice have nothing to eat of my seedlings!" is representative of this kind of heavy chapter and verse.

From the point of view of language style, the dissemination of the Book of Songs, in the pre-Qin period, is still mainly oral transmission, and the mode of transmission is characterized by popular literature. The language of the Book of Songs is vivid and colorful, and it is often able to "total more with less" and "leave no stone unturned". The language of these folk songs not only has the beauty of music, but also has a very good effect on the ideology and rhetoric.