Days The Concept Of "the Book Of Songs" Research

During the Zhou Dynasty( especially in Western Zhou(1027—772 BC)), the ideology of the Tian reflected in "The Book of Songs" is composed with four independent systems : the Nature ,The God, the Decree, and the Fate. Among these four concepts ,the God domains the others.The main contents are following:In the first ,I try to identify the ages of the poems. In the history of Chinese literature, the earliest poetry anthology that handed down is the Book of Songs. Although the statement in Shiji that Confucius revised the Book of Songs spread among scholars, meanwhile, Discussions about some questions, such as, the times that poems were produced and the text of Songs was edited, did not suspend. Relating to the culture system of Western Zhou Dynasty, the thesis brings to right the history of Songs edited by way of investigating the poem creation during every period of Zhou Dynasty.Then , I size up the vale of historical datas of "The Book of Songs". In my article, I summarize the history of studying "The Book of Songs" in historical ways.However,poem is not history. Studying "The Book of Songs" in historical ways must pay attention to its truthfulness and reliability.There was an identity between political and reigious thiyught.There was apparently a universal acceptance of gods" power,yet were neither priests, nor the holy Scriptures.People worshipped natural objects and phenomena, ancestors to be a creator of the Universe and the sapreme ruler of human society. Thus, to obtain prosperous life people should follow Shang Di's will.The Zhou Dynasty rulers renovated the aforementioned concept by combining the idea.of "reverence to Heaven",that is.following Gods,will with "protecting the people")principle, namely providing good living conditions to thepopulace.From the series of analyses, we can see that the styles of "The Book of Songs" changed in the 500 years.We can clearly see the history of the Spring and Autumn Dynasty in the poems of "The changing of Feng andYa".The Nature and the God ,are the substantial elements of the Tian .In the days of early days in Western Zhou , these two elements were identified by the concept of the Wen Wang's Virture . Then the system of the God began to be damaged by the Nature from the date of BianDaYa ,and the Virtue was also damaged in the period of Xiaoya .In the terms of Guo feng the Heavens had been fallen apart and be replaced by the Decree and the Nature .this is the main trace of the concept of the Tian reflected in "The Book of Songs".