On The Study Of Etiquette Poems In "the Book Of Odes"

Etiquette Poems in "The Book Of Odes" vividly reflected the ceremony-and-music civilization of Zhou Dynasty. Deep senses of the spirit of the Chinese nation are contained in them. This thesis aims to explore the cultural implications and aesthetic value of Etiquette Poems in "The Book Of Odes".The thesis consists of three parts, the preface, the main body, and the summary.In the preface, an introduction outlines the study of Etiquette Poems in "The Book Of Odes" on significances, Situations and methods.The main body proceeds in four steps.In the first step,to probe into the source of Etiquette Poems in "The Book Of Odes", the article makes a general discussion on the cultural space for the formation of Etiquette Poems with describing the footprints of ceremonies, poems and the spirit of etiquette. It is concluded that Etiquette Poems in "The Book Of Odes" which have some innate characteristics must have an inevitable generation.In the second and third steps, the article provides a classified research including the cultural implications and performance art of farming songs, songs of ancestral worship, the banquet and formal entertain poems and the celebrate poems.In the fourth step, a discussion on the aesthetic value of Etiquette Poems in "The Book Of Odes" is given in the thesis. As courtesies, the "good"-based aesthetic concept of Zhou people is concentrated embodied. Etiquette Poems in "The Book Of Odes" are practice of the "harmony"-based aesthetic concept of Confucians.In the summary, a conclusion reviews the article and proposes the future efforts on the study of acceptance of Etiquette Poems and the Phenomenon that people used odes in order to express their meanings.The thesis has a comprehensive pectination on all kinds of Etiquette Poems in "The Book Of Odes", and analyses typical Etiquette Poems in them, with the methods of philology, Statistics, sociology, folklore, cultural anthropology, etc.