On The Book Of Songs' Worrying Mentality

Worrying mentality lasts from antiquity to modern times. The content has changed withthe social and ideological development. The book of songs, which came into being betweenXizhou dynasty and the middle period of Chunqiu dynasty shows general worrying mentality.Its specific expression including four aspects. They are worrying mentality of natural calamity,country and people, individual life and marriage, relatives and friends.The reason of forming The book of songs` worrying mentality includes objective andsubjective factors. Worrying about natural calamity is due to accumulation of primitiveworrying and farming culture. The governer ruler's worrying about country and people isbased on rethinking history and lecture of the reverenced ancients. Officials'worrying aboutcountry and people is due to sense of duty which being in confused society. Awakenindividual consciousness and social morality stimulates worrying about individual life.Worrying about relatives and friends thanks to factionalism and farming culture that focus onthe family and ethics.The book of songs` worrying mentality not only breeds some worrying masterpieceswhich occupies the important position of literary world, but also acts on culture and learning,political transform, social custom and so on. It is the net of that social situation, socialideology and individual. It is full of significance and value to research the The book of songs`worrying mentality which is also a comprehensive study of Zhou dynasty.