The Study Of The Imagery Of The Book Of Songs

Grass images is a large class of the various images of “Book of Songs”. Check its text distribution, it's mainly in “Guo Feng” and“Xiao Ya”. Check its geographical distribution, it's mainly in mountains, rivers, fields and wilderness. Maybe the people in Zhou Dynasty love all the good things in their world so that they put them into the poems.The thesis is divided into five chapters, and the most important part is the first chapter. This chapter clarifies the concept of image in Chinese ancient literary theory and its origin and development; According to the order of the text, the grass images appear in the poems are listed out; I also made a brief analysis to the names and characters of the grass images, the expression of the thought and the transmission of emotion.The second chapter discusses the relationship between grass image and the life of the Zhou people, which relates to their production life, emotional life, religious life. Production life mainly refers to the agricultural life. Agricultural productivity in the Western Zhou Dynasty is still at a low level, but metal tools have appeared; The people also mastered the key technology of irrigation, pest control, weeding, composting, soil and so on. In the life of their agricultural labor, a close correspondence between them and the grass, also include the crops and vegetables is formed. And the cultural tradition of being attached to one's native land is built up. Emotional and religious life also are connected with grass images, Zhou people convey emotion and the religious ideas with them. The emotion includes the love between men and women, the relationship between parents and children, the love to-ward hometown and country and the other emotion about the life experience. The religious concept is mainly refers to the ancestor worship and the reproduction worship. I don't think that there's connection between the grass image and totem worship in Western Zhou Dynasty. Totem worship at this time began moving toward ancestor worship; The singing for some flowers also retains traces of reproduction worship. Through the study on the relationship between grass image and Zhou people's life, our interpretation for “Book of Songs” will be more accurate.The third chapter talks about the relationship between grass image and the tradition of eulogy and satire. This tradition are always involved in politics, which is a damage to literary connotation. I think that eulogy is a praise for something and satire is a dig at something. Zhou people's attitude of life and emotional tendency to something are all in it.The fourth chapter monograph the relationship between the grass images and FuBi-Xing. Through using of the three methods, the conveying of all kinds of meaning turns more clear, and makes the poems have much more literary charm.The fifth chapter discusses the influence of grass images of “Book of Songs”. It affects the development of China classical poetry, even contemporary literary creation.I spoke from the herbal beauty of Lisao to the various kinds of grass images of Tang Dynasty, from which we can see the inheritance and variation of grass images. Since “Chu Ci”, the names of grass reduced gradually, but the poems about grass images grown. The external emotion sustenance toward inward quest, the emotion generated from the realistic trigger points directly to the consideration of self-worth seeking.