| Herb mainly refers to the wild herbaceous plants in this paper.It has relative low and small plant shape,meanwhile it does not have relative high ornamental and practical values when compare with other flowers and trees.As a uniform concept of a specific group of plants,people have had a great understanding of herb and accumulated a series of methods and experience of processing and utilizing herb in agricultural production and life since the early agricultural era.In other words,through accumulated life experience,people have come up with a number of traditional social concepts in the bilateral correlation with herb,through which herb gradually becomes an image symbol,representing the symbolic correlation between herb and individual emotions,wills,political indoctrination and identification.The development of works On Herb and the image symbol of herb is out of sync.There appeared relatively more image symbols of herb that play the role of inspiring and expressing emotions and ambitions in creation period of Book of Songs while the appearance of quantity of image symbols of plants in Chu Ci formed the fixed cultural themes like beauties represented by perfumed herbs and noble men represented by spring herbs and also provided ceaseless inspiration for enrichment and deepening of later works On Herb,From promotion of songs in Han Dynasty to unconscious emergence of literature in Wei-Jin period,poems and songs On Herb eventually develop into an independent creation theme and further form a low-profile school with unique connotation in works on objects.On the one hand,the herbs involved in the literary works include the general terms and different types in different time range,such as spring herbs and roadside herbs,on the other hand,the herbs include technical terms and detailed plant varieties,such as moss,orchid and other plant species.The inscriptions,poems and creation of herbs with general terms are the most in quantity and the most abundant in contents in poems and songs On Herb.The physical characteristics through observation on herbs from the perspective of groups are relatively simpler.However,whether from appearance and color of herbs or from combination with climate changes and spatial structure,authors could always find the appropriate junction point between objects and ego so as to create the different aesthetic pictures through combination of aesthetic consciousness of ego and morphological characteristics of herbs.In poems and songs On Herb,there are limited works on herbs with technical terms.The themes of hemerocallis and forgetting of worries have lasted for thousands of years since Book of Songs.A kind of mind state transcending the mundane world is expressed in the description of moss while duckweed always acts as the important image,depending on which poets expressed their life difficulties.The theme connotation and emotional expression of poems and songs On Herb is a significant link in the research on poems and songs On Herb.Farewell and lovesickness are in the majority in the consigned subject emotions in poems and songs On Herb.Meanwhile,different specific life experience is combined to extend the emotional vision to life experience,historical changes,life choice and other aspects.Based on the influence of political and educational system in the historical tradition,the social and political functions of literature are exhibited in poems and songs On Herb while the formed morality and personality symbols become the major literature expression forms that establish and promote the generally-recognized moral personality and social value orientation in traditional ideology. |
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