The humanistic spirit in the Book of Songs
Reading "Heavenly Works" has a small feeling.
To experience the Book of Songs, sometimes you have to figure out the meaning behind it, and the seemingly simple narrative or narrative words sometimes have the meaning of edification, conveying a spirit, expressing a consciousness, and promoting a virtue. For example, "Heavenly Works" is often thought to be a poem to worship ancestors. Indeed, on the surface, it seems to be a sacrifice to the father of the ancient prince of the great tai, but there is only one sentence, the king is desolate, and the king reclaimed this fertile land, which actually refers to the king moving to the original place of Zhou, and began the foundation of the rise of the Zhou family. Therefore, after the efforts of two generations of kings, the road under Qishan was unblocked. What is the political significance of this? When the Zhou people worshiped their ancestors in Qishan, when they praised the merits of their ancestors, they did not forget the merits of the ancestors of mankind, the ancients believed that heaven and earth were the ancestors of people, and the virtues of heaven or nature were endless, and the way of life was born, and heaven and earth gave birth to all things and made human beings survive, and we should be grateful to heaven and earth for the food given by heaven, so we should be sacrificed, so it is said that heaven is a high mountain, and God created a high mountain.
The second is to worship ancestors and even say that the distant history, the narration of the Book of Poetry is still mainly about human affairs, and does not write about ghosts and gods. For example, the "Shengmin" born after writing Houji, how to abandon it, not to mention how bizarre and absurd superstitions, abandoned in Pinglin, just when someone came to cut wood, abandoned in the alley, cattle and sheep Fei words, this "Heavenly Works" is also to describe the king moved to Qishan, King Wen continued to struggle, hard work, only today's Qi Youyi trip, flat avenue, in order to show that the Zhou family began to become strong.
The third is that its political purpose is to say that the Zhou family is the choice of God, and the efforts of the Zhou people and today's prosperity are done from generation to generation, so the descendants will protect it. Future generations should not only enjoy the achievements left by their ancestors, but also inherit the spirit of their ancestors to expand their territory, accept the choice of God, carry forward the virtues of their ancestors, and make the Zhou family more prosperous. Scholar Li Shan believes that "Song Tianzuo" is a clean poem without ghosts and gods to worship ancestors, and it is also a poem with historical awareness.
Heavenly Works": Heaven is a high mountain, and the king is desolate. He is the king, King Kangzhi. He is cu 矣, Qi Youyi's trip hangs. Children and grandchildren will protect it!
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