On The Color Use And The Cultural Connotation Of The Book Of Songs

The color description has always been one of the important means of expression inliterary works, and it is significant for literary works. This paper, from the angle of colordescription of the Book of Songs, tries to discuss the aesthetic and cultural connotation of itswords color, and the aesthetic ideas in the pre-Qin period that is reflected also in the colordescription. This paper can be divided into three chapters:Chapter one expounds the five characteristics of the color description. The first is thedescription of various colors from the nature, a varied colorful splendor world. Second, thesecolors mainly consist of five colors: red, yellow, white, black, green. Third, there is a purpledisappearance in the Book of Songs. Fourth, the matter and the color in the color descriptionof the Book of Songs sometimes are divided and sometimes used simultaneously Songs. Fifth,habitually associate with the same color, and the color bound is limited.Chapter two explains its aesthetic and cultural connotation separately on five majorcolors involved of the Book of Songs. The red roughly expresses four kinds of meanings,namely the solemnity and authority, warmth, goodness and hope, warding off evils andluckiness, win and conquer, these symbolic meaning separately related with the people'sworship to fire, the sun, blood .The yellow roughly expresses three kinds of meanings, namelypower, decline, long-life. The symbol of power comes from the worship to land, while themeaning of decline and long-life comes from people's association in natural phenomena. Thewhite roughly expresses three kinds of meanings, beauty and noble, virtue and goodness,loyalty and love. The aesthetic concepts of beauty and noble are related to the people's love ofsome things like cloud, snow, and white jade, which symbolizes grace, purity and bright. Andthe white purity is just the symbol of perfect ethical personality, the basic meaning of whitecolor is the color of sunrise, and the sacred unshakable status of the sun makes it the witnessof faithful love. Black color expresses honorable purpose, tracing its cause will to be therespect for heaven, and as regards to the complicated dye and knitting technology of the blackclothes at that time. The green roughly expresses two kinds of meanings, namely youth andvitality, lingering and loving emotion. The green is the vegetal color of vert. People associatethings with the life and regard the most vitality age as green. Color of vert always provokelove emotion of people, which lead to great fillings waves that be eager for but cannot catch.Chapter three discuss the aesthetic ideas in the pre-Qin period that is reflected in thecolor description. Accordance is the core and base of classic culture, which grow in theagriculture civilization. And this simplicity conception reflected in the Book of Songs. Theprincipal rule of this idea based on the unity of variety colors. The unity and accordance coloratmosphere is just the fantastic performance of Chinese connotation mentality. Secondly,theintension of accordance also include the cooperation of individual and object. The colorbeauty of objective feelings must correspond with individual and social demands in doublelevels. As to subjective, the bilateral agree with the artistic conception and emotion. As tosocial, the bilateral agree with the ethical and political use of color, which namely sign officialposition grade and auditor ship rank. And the color of dress especially represents this idea.Songs is the most ancient poetry anthology of China, whose color description filter themost traditional custom and religion belief, have already established and initiated the colorlanguage formation of classic literature and have formed the unique color civilization ofChinese.