Research On Confucian Teaching Of The Book Of Songs And The Original Of The Book Of Songs

Teaching of The Book of Songs is one of the Confucian Six Arts (Liu Yi). The era of the generation and spread of The Book of Songs, there did gradually arisen a kind of moral rational spirit which was based on humanistic and can be summarized with "Li&Yue spirit". This kind of social and cultural background has a fundamental and decisive impact on The Book of Songs. And the Confucian made use of this kind of rational spirit to sublimate the value of the teaching connotation and purpose of The Book of Songs.In the educational idea of Confucian, the poetry has closely relations with music, which both are sounds education and linked to Li&Yue spirit. Li&Yue spirit cultivate the mellow humanity that inner of everyone, thus make the life of person lively and vivid. The reason why poetry and music can well educate persons is that they can arouse the spirit. By reading the words and phrases, accompanying the sounds, poetries make people moved and inspired. To extent and cultivate this kind of sensitive affection is the aim of the teaching of The Book of Songs.The Book of Songs can inspire (xing) and reflects (guan) the people’s life. The Book of Songs’ Original of Fang Yurun well comprehended the inspiration (xing) and reflecting (guan) of The Book of songs. Fang Yurun did not take a positive attitude towards the MaoProems, neither Mr Zhuxi’s interpretation. He, in his book, opposed false analogies. His book well analyzed different parts of The hook of songs, especially of Southern Zhou and Southern Shao, the Regional Songs, and the Odes and the Hymns. It well grasped the true feelings that the poems expressed, and interpreted the spirits of music and the unity of monarch and his subjects, man and nature. The contents reflected by The Book of Songs, which The Book of Songs’ Original comprehended and interpreted, show the fundamental principles of Zhou Dynasty, the changing of officials and the times. Fang Yurun commented about the polity and the custom of feudatory states by analyzing the different style of the Regional Songs.And Fang Yurun’s mainly shortcomings were his unavoidable subjective speculation and pedantic arguments, because of sometimes where haven’t well understand and easily to conclusions. And his manner of his writing sometimes, lack of the gentle and moderate which is certainly an aim of The Book of Songs.