The Book of Songs includes works from the early Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BC) to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) (about 623 BC), about the 11th century BC to the 6th century BC, about 500 years of poetry, about 2500 3000 years ago, the "Book of Songs" is indeed far away from us.
Why is the Book of Songs all around us? It is because the poems in the Book of Songs are still being sung or interpreted, a large number of idioms and idioms from the Book of Songs are still being used by us, and the poems in the Book of Songs are still being sung by word of mouth from generation to generation in some places, and the state attaches great importance to the cultural inheritance value of the Book of Songs.
1. Contemporary interpretation of the poems in the Book of Songs
For example, singers Teresa Teng and Li Jian both sang "On the Water Side", which was interpreted from the poem "Pu Jia".2. Idioms and idioms derived from the Book of Songs
There are many words derived from the Book of Songs, such as the word "wind", the Zhou Dynasty had the tradition of sending pedestrians to the folk to collect poems in early spring, and the local songs collected were called "wind.""This act of collecting folk songs is called "collecting style". Another example is "Zhou Nan Han Guang": "翘 (qiāo) warped wrong salary, and words (yi) are Chu." "Among the staggered miscellaneous trees, the wattle stands out as a good firewood, and the beauty of the girl surpasses that of the others, and she is the best among them. This is the ** of the word "leader" in later generations, which is a metaphor for outstanding talents or things.
There are many idioms derived from the Book of Songs, such as "wind and rain are like obscurity", "swearing", "death and life are broad", and "willows are still in the past".", "Rain and snow palms", "The mountains look up, and the scenery stops."", "trembling, such as facing the abyss, like walking on thin ice", "the stones of other mountains, can attack jade" ......According to some statistics, there are about 230 idioms often used in modern Chinese Chinese, which comes from the "Book of Songs", which shows the depth of its influence on modern culture. My Fair Lady, the gentleman is so fast, jagged vegetables, left and right, My Fair Lady, I covet it, I can't ask for it, I can't ask for it, I can't think about it. Leisurely, tossing and turning. Among them is the "Fair Lady" who describes a woman with good looks and a virtuous character";Describe the longing and continuous "leisurely"; Describe the three idioms of "tossing and turning" that there is something in your heart and you can't fall asleep over and over.
3. The state attaches great importance to the cultural inheritance value of the Book of Songs
Promote Chinese culture and build a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation. As one of the activities of the "Chinese Classics Series of Chanting", in June 2010, the Oriental Shen Yun - "The Book of Songs: Wind" recital was successfully held in the Centennial Lecture Hall of Peking University.
My New Year's reading plan