Zhou And Literature

The Zhou Etiquette is the summation of political system, culture system, ceremony system and social convention in Zhou Dynasty, across from Western Zhou-Dynasty to Eastern Zhou-Dynasty, which consist of systems and provisions of politics, economy, military affairs, education and arts.The principal frame of Zhou Li was established at the beginning of early Zhou. The later alternation just made odds and ends. .Zhou Li emphasized particularly on system, Ceremony practice and Ceremony Notes theory explain.The Zhou Etiquette pushed the adoration to ancestor and God, using the concepts of euthanasia. It sought the mentality effects in the sacrifice activity by using myth. Therefore The Zhou Etiquette promoted flourish of myths in such extents.Moreover, it owned the factors of myths and made contributions to keep myths owing to its arts of Li-Yue, contained factors in Li-Yue art system, such as, the Psalms in the Zhou Song and Da Ya, which were entitled as epic. But the Zhou Etiquette brought the side effects to the myths for it tried bringing the myths into its system, so it weakened the fruitful plots and details and damaged the aesthetic effects in the end.The most important relations between the Zhou Etiquette and poems mirrored the usage to poems. As a system, it ruled the corresponding relations to certain poem and certain etiquette. The Zhou Etiquette had made rules to use poem showing the difference of the etiquette that came into being the symbolic function. The poems participated in social life directly by playing different poems to express different meanings. For examples, the effect of poems that participated in social life were magnified by singing the songs and expostulating with poems. As a result, later generations overemphasized the politic function, therefore neglected the aesthetic value.The Zhou Etiquette affected on the composition of poesy. Its spark plug has influenced the authors and readers to aesthetic incline, and has token canonical action on the colors and styles. The produce of ode rooted directly in the need of fete. The Zhou Etiquette promoted the birth of ancient Chinese poetical criticism. Early Chinese poetical critical system was established from music word teaching, play music in banquet, singing songs to ceremony notes and preface of poem.The Zhou Etiquette has its own systems of poem and music that composed the important factors of the ceremony-music system. Its six-style-poesy is the former of the book of poesy. In such way, it could be said the Zhou Etiquette was necessity to the book of poesy. Bi is a style of poesy sang in the great review, and Fu, to the people live in towns and villages when office-holders introduced decree to demos, Xing, the usage in funeral. They offered idealistic data for later to sum up the experience of the book of poesy thought they were withered away with decay of the ceremony-music system.The ceremony-music system provided essential condition for the great development of civilization and artistic in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, promoted writing usage in realms of social life and hastened the naissance of many styles. Some brilliant...