The Book of Songs is the source of China's poetry and whatnot

Realism

The Book of Songs, the earliest general collection of poetry, collects poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (11th to 6th centuries BC), ***311, of which 6 are pith poems, i.e., they have only titles and no content.

The Book of Songs is the source of Chinese poetic realism. The Book of Songs is the glorious starting point of Chinese realist literature. Because of its rich content and high achievements in thought and art, it occupies an important position in the cultural history of China and even the world. It initiated the excellent tradition of Chinese poetry and had an indelible influence on the literature of later generations.

The Book of Songs is based on the reality of social life, with very few supernatural myths. The rituals, banquets, and agricultural activities described are the products of the social economy and the culture of rituals and music of the Zhou Dynasty, while the other poems describe the current political situation and world affairs, the wars and corvée service, and the marriages and romances, and unfold the image of the then political situation, the social life, and the customs of the people.

The status and influence of the Book of Songs in the history of literature

1. Created the tradition of lyric poetry

From the beginning of the Book of Songs onward, China's lyric poetry has been shown to be a particularly well-developed feature of national literature. Since then, Chinese poetry has progressed along the path of lyricism opened up by the Book of Songs, and lyric poetry has become the main form of poetry in China.

2. Fengya and Literary Innovation

The passion for reality, the strong political and moral consciousness, and the sincere and positive attitude towards life shown in the Book of Songs were summarized as the spirit of "Fengya" by later generations, which had a direct impact on the creativity of later poets, and became the basis for the literary innovation of later poets. The spirit of "Fengya" was summarized by later generations as the "spirit of wind and elegance", which directly influenced the creation of later poets and became the basis of literary innovation for later poets.

3. The example of Bixing

Bixing provides a model for future generations of writers to follow in terms of artistic expression, and it has developed into a unique national cultural tradition of ancient Chinese poetry. In the Book of Songs, Xing, which only serves as the beginning of a poem to harmonize the rhythms and evoke the emotions, is still expressed in the poetry of later generations. And the existence of a large number of both than the meaning of the Xing, more widely inherited by future poets, than the Xing has become a fixed word, used to refer to the poetry of the image of thinking, or the artistic expression of some support. In the Book of Songs, Bixing touches things to move emotions, uses image thinking to shape distinctive artistic images, and constitutes the artistic realm of blending scenes, which is of great significance to the development of Chinese poetry. The use of Bixing has formed the artistic characteristics of ancient Chinese poetry, which is implicit and inexhaustible.