Vanilla beauty and the tradition of complaining and stabbing with indignation and lyricism

Vanilla beauty is the original image accumulated and condensed by ancestors in a long history. It is reflected in The Book of Songs and Songs of the South. It is Chu Ci that really germinates this group of images of vanilla beauty in literature, which makes the original image of vanilla beauty wrapped in Qu Yuan's personality strength and fate tragedy, with realistic and rich content. The influence of vanilla beauty on later generations includes two parts: it is the prototype image for wandering poets; It is also an ironic example for poets with political responsibility. Complaining and stabbing is the main criterion of Confucian poetics, and Chu Ci perfectly embodies the core idea of complaining and stabbing. The political lyric in Chu Ci is carried out in the process of consciousness, and the prototype of vanilla beauty it shows is also obviously symbolic, which is combined with the political lyric form. It advocates an angry and lyrical poetic proposition, and perfectly realizes this proposition through the prototype image of vanilla beauty.

With its unparalleled artistic achievements, Songs of the South established the position of expressing anger and lyricism in poetry, and inspired the political enthusiasm of China literati to pay attention to reality: the expression techniques of men and women, monarch and ministers developed from the prototype of vanilla beauty opened up another critical road for struggling China literati.