The Study Of The Physical Image Of Animals In The Book Of Songs

"The Book of Songs" presented various kinds of animal in 305poems, in which over 170 poems refer to animals apartently or un-appartently.Facing so many kinds of animals in "The Book of Songs",Confucius gave thesummons and the guidance to know. The author thinks it is necessary to carryon researching in the physical images of animals in "The Book of Songs"more comprehensively and thoroughly. On this topic, the article, mainlysupported with Cassill's semiotics principle, takes the animals in "TheBook of Songs" as a special cultural mark ,and carries on the analysis andthe discussion. For one hand, we could have a direct understanding aboutthe animals involved in the poems, for the other hand, we could know moreabout the thinking, feeling and living condition of ancient person in "TheBook of Songs"-era.This article mainly includes six major parts, explains the animalphysical image in "The Book of Songs" according to the logical order fromthe minute to always, from the shallow to the deep.In the first chapter, the article mainly makes a integrate statementon the animals in "The Book of Songs" from the museology prospect. Accordingto the author's statistics, "The Book of Songs" has altogether involved41 kinds of birds, 25 kinds of beasts, 29 kinds of insects, 15 kinds offishes. Revolving these dissimilar animals in shape and form, many words arederived. The article carries on the words summary separately according tothe birds, the beasts, the insect and the fish, those words extremely richChinese glossary. At the same time, as the main food-origin, the thing ofsacrificial offering, the war tool, and the seasons symbol, animals playsa very important role in ancients' producing and living.In the second chapter, the article mainly elaborates how the animalin "The Book of Songs" is used as the function mark to express one's ideas. First, as the presenting or granting gift, animals undertake love medium,simultaneously state the realationship and friendship among people, andalso transmit the higher, authority to subordinate's affirmation andtrust, which contain rich emotional connotation; Next, animals also evokethe ancients emotion, and undertake the function of image mark inpoems, which mainly manifests the love-marriage poem, the satirical poem, aswell as the hunting poem, the good-bye poem, the recollections poem in "TheBook of Songs"; Once more, animals, the humorous manner transmitter, unfolddifferent mood in the ancients daily life and the political life.In the third chapter, the article mainly elaborated how the animal in"The Book of Songs" is used as the symbolic mark with profound connotation.First, some animals, as mystical association signed totemismidea, undertake the special historical cultureof the age, This kind ofunique animal physical image mainly exists in the first-ancestor borningpoems and the dreaming poems in "The Book of Songs",simultaneously, poemsin "The Book of Songs" despict many flags drawn animals design, which arethe consciousness survivors of totem culture;next, the animal in "The Bookof Songs" also can appear as enigmatic words to express love consciousness,which mainly concentrates in animal physical images such as fish, fox, bird,deer and etc; Once more, "The Book of Songs" had many poems involving thedragon, the article mainly analysis the dragon culturein "The Book of Songs"from the dragon-shield, the dragon-flag, the dragon-dress (i.e. royalrobes;).In the fourth chapter, the article mainly elaborated how the animalin "The Book of Songs" as the idea mark effected by the integrity of humanand physical world .First, the article makes the meaning-limits on theintegrity of human and physical world and the life-mood, then mainlyelaborated the concrete connotation of the life mark from two aspects, theone is the deep love and the affirmation of life existenc which are expressedin the animal image by the ancients, the other is that animal's survivalcondition and human's living condition affect mutually, which enrich theancients' life content. The conclusion part has made the overall summary to the article content,and advocated that we should take the relation between person and animalsin "The Book of Songs"-era as the warning, strengthen modern people'senvironmental protection consciousness.