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Etiquette Poems in The Book of Songs

From Preface to the Book of Songs and Mao Shi.

The original text is as follows:

Therefore, the wind becomes sentimental and stops at comity. It is human nature to express feelings; Stop at courtesy and righteousness, and the first king's ze is also.

Analysis:

"Show love, stop at ceremony", which embodies a kind of sacredness, a kind of responsibility and responsibility. Taste this sentence, which brings me enlightenment: men respect themselves and women love themselves. The reason is simple, but it's really hard to do! "Emotion stops at ceremony" is a theoretical thing, but the real emotional world is inside, so it is quite difficult to combine theory with practice. It is ok to fall in love, but you can't go beyond the boundaries of etiquette, that is, you can't have sex. Stop here is not to stop feelings, but to stop within the scope allowed by etiquette, and you can't do anything beyond etiquette because of love. Confucius advocated "being happy without being lewd".

Introduction to the work:

The Book of Songs is a collection of poems produced at the end of slave society in China. It is the beginning of China's ancient poetry and the earliest collection of poems. We collected 305 ancient poems from BC 1 1 century to the 6th century BC, and 6 poems of Sheng with only titles but no poems, which reflected the social outlook of about 500 years from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period.

The author of The Book of Songs is unknown. It was collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius. At first, it was just called "Poetry" or "Poetry 300". In the Western Han Dynasty, it was regarded as a Confucian classic and called The Book of Songs. There are three kinds of editors in The Book of Songs: style, elegance and ode. "Wind" is a ballad of Zhou Dynasty. Elegant music is the official music of Zhou people, which is divided into harmony and elegance. Ode is a musical song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and noble ancestral temples, which is divided into ode to, and ode to Shang.

The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.