The Literary Researching Of The Book Of Poetry During The Republic Of China

The Book of Poetry in China is regarded as ancient classics of Confucian, during theRepublic of China time, it is suddenly turning from the classics to the literature. Inthis time, the decline of Confucian Classics was contacted with the abolition of theimperial examination system and the introducing of the foreign education system, andthe most important reason was that the ancient Chinese culture lost the Successor.With that tendency, Confucian Classics went downhill.The Book of Poetry is different with other shi jing, people during the May FourthMovement find and enlarges the literary significance of The Book of Poetry, so itturned to be the first poetry collection. From this time, literary perspective becomesthe only way of researching. Especially, Zhenzhengduo criticized the traditional modeof literary appreciation, introducing the "evolution of ideas” and” inductiveinvestigation" into the history of Chinese literature studies. The Book of Poetry willno longer be a classic, and become the important songs collection in the evolutionaryhistory of Chinese literature. And in progressive people’s viewpoint, Love Poems alsobecame the spirit of self-liberation. At the same time, the traditional explanation ofThe Book of Poetry was criticized by the progressive people. The traditionalexplanation becomes the important obstacle of the literary explanationspreading.Whether it is on the order itself poetry criticism, or Printing the ancient’sbooks, we can see people’s hate of the traditional explanation of The Book of Poetry.After a series of destruction, the progressive people claiming that the real meaning ofthe poetry has been deceived. This is what we see today, The Book of Poetry.This article discusses a series of representative events, during the changing period ofthe research of The Book of Poetry from traditional explanation to literary significancein the Republic of China.First, under the influence of gushibian, the “The Book ofPoetry" was reposition as the first poetry collection by the progressive people. Duringthis period, people abandon the traditional concept of teaching poetry. Second, underthe impacting of vernacular movement advocated by Hushu, a series of books wereProduced. Those books were The Book of Poetry with vernacular translation, whichdestroyed “The Book of Poetry" at the level of the language. As well as theintroduction of folk literature, lead to the vulgar interpretation of The Book of Poetry.Third, under the reform of the education system and the new literary movementeffects, producing a series of literary history books, which advocating the returns tothe text, leading to the positive significance of t The Book of Poetry disappear.Under the trend of these three, The Book of Poetry research gradually moved towardthe modern studying.