Title: A Cultural Penetration of Composing Verses in the Spring and Autumn Times
Abstract: Composing verses in the Spring and Autumn times was a peculiar picture in the cultural history of The Book of Songs. “Composing verses” means something between “singing verses” and “uttering verses”, so it is similar to chanting verses in later generations. Functionally, composing verses can be classified into three types, namely, the type of diplomatic ceremony and propriety, the type of expressing views and the type of instruction and irony. However, they can generally be taken as “composing verses to express views”. Composing verses presents three distinctions, using old verses in a new sense, speaking of one but implying the other and taking a few lines in spite of the whole of the text. Hence a complex and delicate interactive and implicative dialogic transmitting-receiving mechanism, an excellent mechanism of using verses and a distinctive mechanism of interpretation to potentially “voice unhappiness and misery of the broad commons”. Composing verses was a product in the specific historical background of the Spring and Autumn times, whose rise, flouriching and decline were all closely related to the social and cultural reality then. Thus composing verses in the Spring and Autumn times as a distinctive and pretty cultural picture is of great significance to study of the cultural history of The Book of Songs and of the history of Chinese civilization.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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