Poetry is innocent

Chapter 13 Geographic Maps of Poetry
The Influence of "Poetry"
Although the "Three Hundred Poems" has such a great influence in Confucian literature, it is in the influence of later literature.Not many.It seems that the style of "Book of Songs" and the text of "Book of Songs" are both broken in the Spring and Autumn Period.Although there were four-character poems later, they were no longer the four-character poems in "Three Hundred Poems".

So in this case, first, the popular music during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period changed, and the poetic style combined with the old music did not work.Marquis Wen of Wei was happy when he heard modern music, but tired when he heard ancient music. At that time, the distinction between modern music and ancient music was very clear.[-]. The music of the Han Dynasty is based on the sound of Chu, with a little addition of northern sounds, so the system of Yasong Zheng Wei is not introduced.[-]. Ya Nai died along with the cultural relics of Zong Zhou, not to mention.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, everything in China changed drastically, and the diction and music inevitably followed.There is another reason: after all, "Three Hundred Poems" is a poetic style in the early years, and it has not reached the level of Cao Zijian's five-character poems or Li Du's seven-character poems.Suddenly encountered great changes between the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, so it was impossible to maintain the system.

Moreover, not all poetic styles can be described as life, so the change of poetry in the past dynasties is much faster than that of writing.After all, how much intellectual content is contained in the text can be accumulated from the past to the future.If it is a poem, although human emotions are the same as ancient and modern, they are nothing more than joys and sorrows, likes and angers, but people's feelings reflect the times everywhere, and feelings change with the changes of the times.For example, the best poems of Tang people may not feel familiar when we read them now, because the times are different, and we cannot feel what Tang people felt.Naturally, there are always immortals in a single poem, but if we look at a system and a tendency, there are always living and dead, strong and old.

So the later influence of "Three Hundred Poems" is not in the poems, but in the fake antiques.Since the Wu Dynasty of the Han Dynasty, it has been emphatically devoted to the arts, and the Three Kings' countermeasures have been written in the "Shangshu", and Yangzi Yunzhen has been written in the "Book of Songs".In the future, such as Wei Meng's poems (this is not the Western Han Dynasty poems), and the poems that have been enshrined in the past dynasties, every time I study the "Book of Songs".However, those who "modify the characters in "Yao Dian" and "Shun Dian", and alter the poems in "Qing Temple" and "Shengmin" are living literature?It's just a pedant's tricks.The four-character style in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties was still prosperous, but except for a few Confucian classics, there was no systematic connection with the "Three Hundred Poems".

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