Research On Wei Clan's Study Of The Book Of Songs In Han Dynasty

The Wei clan has a long history and many talents.In the early Western Han Dynasty,one of the ancestors of the Wei clan,Wei Meng,as the teacher of three generations of Chu kings,started to learn the Lu Poetry.After moving on Zoucheng,the great Confucianist Wei Xian was recruited to Chang'an and lived in Guanzhong for generations.Wei Xian and his younger son Wei Xuancheng became prime ministers.Wei Shang,Wei Biao and others in the family are well-known for poetics.The Wei clan was famous for their studing classics and officialdom in the Western Han Dynasty.Not only did they appear as the "Father and Son Prime Minister",and they prospered as the "Fifth Great Confucian Prime Minister and Three Generation Prime Ministers".They also praised the world as the "Classics Heirloom",developed the Wei's Lu Poetry.Finally,the Wei clan became Confucian classics family.The Poetics of the Wei clan originated from the Lu School of Poetry founded by Shen Gong.With the migration of the Wei clan,they merged the characteristics of regional cultures such as Pengcheng,Zoulu,Chang'an,Luoyang and formed their unique style.In the era of the Han Dynasty's passage of classics,Wei's Lu poetry and family members' officialdom complemented each other,and the Wei clan became the representative family of Lu poetry in the Western Han Dynasty.In addition,the Wei family has studyed the Book of Songs from generation to generation,and the four-character poetry creation under its influence is also an important part of the Wei clan's poetic heritage.The four-character poetry creation of the Wei clan is the first of its kind in the Han Dynasty.Their poetic style tends to be "traditional",with an obvious aftertaste of Ya and Song.Wei clan's poetics embodies the spirit of equal loyalty and filial piety and mutual evidence of poems and rituals in the inheritance from generation to generation.The internalization of Wei clan's poetics in the style of family scholars has profoundly affected the standing and living of family members.As a cultural family that moved from Qilu area to Guanzhong and eventually became the distinguished family of Guanzhong,the Wei clan also represented the trend of the confucianism center of gravity shifted from Qilu area to Guanzhong during theunification period of the Han Dynasty.It also had a certain impact on the formation of Guanzhong confucian classics and culture during the Han Dynasty.