What is the artistic value of The Book of Songs?

The artistic value of The Book of Songs is as follows:

First, it created the realistic tradition of China's poetry.

① Reflect the vastness of reality. The poems in The Book of Songs come from a wide range of regions and strata. Authors include slaves, freemen, soldiers, exiles, beggars, mistresses, abandoned wives, and nobles who also attack and refuse to leave the rulers. They widely reflected the social life at that time from different standpoints, experiences, life feelings and other aspects, and showed the life of 500 to 600 years from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, with a long time span, wide background and rich content, which was unmatched by many later poetry collections.

② Reflect the profundity of reality. Most of the authors can stand on the position of the exploited, expose the insatiable nature of rulers and the crime of oppressing people, and also reflect the tragic fate of slaves and the process of slave resistance from unconscious to conscious. Through these descriptions, The Book of Songs truly outlines the history of how the Zhou Dynasty went from prosperity to collapse.

Second, colorful artistic expression.

1. Simple and natural style. Poets are good at using simple language and sketching techniques to describe the characteristics of things in a general and concrete way and truly reflect real life.

(2) The wide application of Xing technique. A large number of poems in The Book of Songs use Fu, Bi, Xing to narrate, describe scenery and express emotion, which greatly enhances the image of poetry and improves its artistic expression and appeal.

Third, the formal characteristics.

(1) is basically a four-character poem. One sentence with two beats and a neat sentence pattern presents a kind of rhythmic beauty. In order to express the needs of content, The Book of Songs often breaks through this fixed frame and uses changeable sentence patterns. Therefore, in addition to the four characters, the Book of Songs also produced a variety of sentence patterns from one character to nine characters.

(2) Multiple chapters and repeated sentences deepen the content and deepen the feelings step by step.

③ The phonology is natural and varied.

④ Rich vocabulary and vivid words.

The Book of Songs is the glorious starting point of China literature and the source of realism. Together with Songs of the South, it is called "Poetic Sao", which represents the highest achievement of northern literature. "Elegance" became a model of progressive literati's creation, and "Bi Xing" became the basic technique of ancient poetry, which laid a solid foundation for the development of realistic literature in China and formed an excellent tradition in the history of China literature.