On The Life Awareness Of "the Book Of Songs" And The Series Of Correlated Primordial Images

The life awareness is referred to a kind of self-conscious rational thoughts and emotional experience about human life. It is the core theme of the development of human thinking and human civilization, as well as an important spiritual core that be embodied in literary works. This paper is just coming to that point, which concentrates on discussing all aspects of the life awareness and the life primordial images be chosen in "the Book of Songs". In this thesis I attempt to combine the study of the philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, aesthetics, and other related disciplines together meanwhile basing on the research of literature, and unite the two areas of life ontology and life values.The paper is developed into three major sections. The first section gives a overall introduction for the development process and performance characteristics of life awareness in the pre-Qin period, with the aim of offering a macrocosmic, common background for the life awareness in "the Book of Songs". The second section makes a specific analysis of the deep intension and the extensive performance of life awareness in "the Book of Songs", deals with all sorts of live ponderations of the people in the period of "the Book of Songs". The third section focuses on the series of life primordial images in "the Book of Songs". Poets of "the Book of Songs" tend to bind up their own living emotions with a variety of outside things, thus forming aunique statement------the series of life primordial images which expressed the life awareness.These primordial images could be divided into three series: the plant category, the animal category and the natural landscape category.The analysis of the paper is based on the preceding research, in the same time has its own innovations. Firstly, the paper focuses on the specific scope of "the Book of Songs", and makes a omnibearing, three-dimensional, dynamic analysis about the life awareness of it. Then I generalize some new viewpoints. Secondly, it is not only satisfied with the symptoms described, but also has a deep exploration to the cultural roots of the life awareness in "the Book of Songs" from sociology, history, culturology, folklore and other disciplines by a broad perspective. Finally, I try to achieve a transition form the philosophical core of life awareness to the poetic expression, and centered on the artistic features of "the Book of Songs", arrange the primordial images under categories as related the life awareness of "the Book of Songs" together.