Research On The Family Ethic Poems In The Book Of Songs

The Book of Songs is not only one of the earliest anthologies of verse in China,but also an encyclopedia of Chinese ancient times society.lt comprehensively reflects the era of the Zhou Dynasty’s social bigotry. There are many poems involes the family ethical relationships in The Book of Songs, they embody the family ethics of the Zhou Dynasty,so we can name them as Family Ethic Poems.Family ethical relationships inevitably internally with the men and women relation, conjugal relation, parents-children relation,brothers-sisters relation. The Family Ethic Poems in The Book of Songs can be roughly divided into four categories,they are the poems reflected the relationship between men and women, the poems reflected the relationship of conjugal,the poems reflected the relationship of parents-children, the poems reflected the relationship between brothers and sisters.This text will base on The Book of Songs and combine with the relevant historical data of the Zhou Dynasty to interpret the manifestation of the four types of relationships in detail, and analyzes its concept of family ethics in the behind.The Family Ethic Poems in The Book of Songs formed a comparatively complete concept of family ethics, generally include:Strengthen the male’s authority, father’s right and husband’s authority in family life.On the relationship between men and women advocates the notions of male superiority.On the relationship between husband and wife advocates the harmonious husband and wife to respect each other.On the parents-children relationship advocates the harmony of the parents and children.On the relationship between brothers and sisters advocates the affinity of brothers and sisters.The Family Ethic Poems in The Book of Songs profoundly reflects the era of family ethical relations and concepts, showing the patriarchal clan system and the music culture of the Zhou Dynasty, it also reflects the social change of the Zhou Dynasty and has had a profound influence on the formation and development of family ethics in the later ages.The Book of Filial Piety is not only the masterpiece of Confucian theories about filial piety, but also the first monograph of system ethical thoughts in our country.The Book of Filial Piety has eighteen chapters,ten of them quote the verse of The Book of Songs. In the visible we can see the direct influnce of The Book of Songs to The Book of Filial Piety.The profound influence mainly performance in the many ideas of The Book of Filial Piety are from The Book of Songs. The filial piety thought of The Book of Filial Piety is deeply elucidated the reseachers of the family ethical conception in The Book of Songs.Especially those thoughts of the filial rule thought,the filial from home to the country, alternate filial piety to loyalty, through filial to rule the whole country in The Book of Filial Piety are all in one continuous line of The Book of Songs.