"the Book Of Songs" Animal Imagery Study

The Book of Songs is the first poetry anthology of china,and one of the most reliable books for us to understand the ancient Chinese culture,The image is the soul of poems,and the media of a piece of poem to convey its ideas.so it is the first step to read poems.Animal images often appear in The Book of Songs,Birds,insects,fish and animals live on many moving poems.Animal images not only carry the ancestors's concept connotation and emotional implication,but also touch every reader with its own image beauty and dynamical beauty.Aside from the introduction and conclusion, this article is divided into four chapters.The introducton mainly presents research status and methods of animal images in The Book of Songs.The first chapter is generality about animal images in The Book of Songs.The content includes the current academic circle's definition about the image,the creation of animal images and related poems in The Book of Songs.The second chapter discusses concept connotation of animal images.First introducing the causes of concept connotation,and then analyzing animal images to explore the ancestors' cultural values,which concretly displays the totem worship conception,fertility worship conception,auspicious conception and figural virtue congception.The third chapter discusses the emotional implication of animal images.By comparision and analysis,it is classified into two main section to discuss:First,the pleasure of love and marriage,as opposed to the trooper's life burden,and concluded that:Peace and Love are the ancestors as well as modern people really needed;Second,giving praise to right virtuous people,and giving bitter irony to moral decay people.From this we can comprehend the culture of ritual and music's social attributes in Zhou Dynasty,and it's irrigation and infiltration to the social members' body and mind.The fourth chapter explores the animal images' creating characteristics.The animal images in Mountain and Sea Classics,The Book of Changes,The Songs of Chu and other early classics,often possess deep wizardry,illusory and romantic atmosphere.However,the animal images in The Book of Songs are the most common and simple,and have a strong reality,Imagery and action,which formed the lifestyle trait of image-choosed in The Book of Songs.Animal images in the The Book of Songs,in addition to using their own emotional implication moving people,they also have an image beauty,a lively and moving visual value,and are presented as a fascinating perceptual patterns,which reflects people at that time the identification and pursuit of dynamical beauty. The conclusion expounds the important meaning of animal images' research,which not only can help readers right interpret the text of The Book of Songs,but also can help readers to better comprehend the Chinese literature and Chinese culture.