A Research On Gentleman’s Virtue Of The Book Of Songs

The martial spirit is popular in the Shang period. The Zhou dynasty has begun promotingvirtue and it is different from the Shang period. Gentleman is echoes from that era respect forthe rule of virtue. Gentleman is a sign of promoting virtue. Gentleman’s virtue is one of theideal personality. They dress in fancy imperial clothing and have decent manners. They ownthe responsibilities and missions. The ideal personality has been gradually established fromthe Zhou dynasty and it has reflected in the Book of Songs. Who is gentleman?"Thegentleman, not negligent xi!","the gentleman, respect and listen to it.","have a banditgentleman, such as cutting and grinding stones "and" did not see the gentleman, is worried”.The gentleman The Book of songs refers to the ancient supreme ruler, the lords Bureaucrats, aman of virtue and wife call her husband. However, the gentleman not only refers them, thegentleman often own virtues. They made contributions to righteousness, grace, loyalty filial,conservation and so on. The personality can be in The Book of songs the earth’s surface ofincisively and vividly come out. During The Book of songs, Gentleman’s virtue has specificpoint. The virtue consists of surface virtue and external virtue. From The Book of songsaccount can be seen the description of the gentleman’s virtue and the pursuit of ideal moralcharacters.Compared with other literature and books, the The Book of songs can show theGentleman virtue thoroughly and reflect the original the life status of authors. Creations nothave some fixed pattern, so they could be more real to reflect the joys and sorrows of thepeople. From this perspective, the study on gentleman virtue of The Book of songs is moreappropriate. This inquiry seeks to enhance such understandings by analyzing the gentleman’svirtue and reflect the standards for gentleman’s virtue and pursue the ideal moral characters.There are four parts in the thesis. The first part mainly from four areas strengthen the imagesof gentleman from The Book of songs. The second part mainly analysis referring of fourkings of ideology of the gentleman’s virtue in The Book of songs. It consist the thought ofaccomplishment, the idea of respecting and loving people, political thoughts, the thought of loyalty and filial piety. It analyzes the good quality and the concrete representation ofgentleman’s virtue. The Book of songs, as one of the greatest masterpiecesin Chinese literaryhistory, exercises an ever-lasting influence. The last section analyzes the influence ofgentleman’s virtue in The Book of songs. It includes the influence of The Zhou dynasty andthe influence of the gentleman’s virtue’s impact on the early establishment of Confucianphilosophy.