Western Zhou History Of Poetry

In the history of Chinese literature, the earliest poetry anthology that handed down is the Book of Songs. Although the statement in Shiji that Confucius revised the Book of Songs spread among scholars, meanwhile, Discussions about some questions, such as, the times that poems were produced and the text of Songs was edited, did not suspend. Relating to the culture system of Western Zhou Dynasty, the thesis brings to right the history of Songs edited by way of investigating the poem creation during every period of Western Zhou Dynasty. The main contents are following: The fitSt chaPtr is "Preface." Aftr reviewing the Songs academic history theauthor inquires into three arponis: relationS betwen "SOng" and "POem",origins of four narns "Nian" "Feng" "Ya' "Song", baSes of judging the tirn ofpoems in Songs. In "Based for judging tAne ", the thesis mainIy discusses MaoShiXu,rules of "Shi", "InscriPtion" ':qtock phrase ", and so on. The second chapter is he songs of early stage in Western Zhou Dynasty? After a brief account about the history that Zhou dynasty established, and the truthfulness about Zhougong lay down the ceremony system of Zhou Dynasty, author investigates those ceremony songs that produced in this period. In Kang monarch抯 political activities of aking music songs? these ceremony songs were arranged, and the text of music songs which named as Ya and Song merged. Following last section, the author analyses the ceremony songs in the middle of Western Zhou Dynasty in the third chapter. Firstly, by way of discussing relating ceremony, the thesis proves those ceremony systems of Zhou Dynasty matured in times of Mu monarch. On the basis of this, the author emphatically investigates sixteen ceremony songs that were created or finished in Mu monarch times. So far as the text of Songs took shape, except these songs whose contents were singing ancestors?merits and offering sacrifices to gods or ancestors, a new type of ceremony songs which song in banquet ceremony came into the text of Songs. The texts of Ya and Song, which produced in Kang monarch times, were edited and arranged again in Mu monarch times, their contents more enlarged, and exerted a tremendous influence upon people's life. The issue in the fourth chaPer is "Poems in the later period of Westem ZhouDynasty". Author investigates emphaticaIly Li monarch "Bian Da Ya", ceremonysongs in Xuan monarch times and satirical poems in later period of Xuan monarch times. Those works so-called heng Xiao Ya?are ceremony songs produced in times that Xuan monarch renewed ceremony systems. At the same time, the text named as Shi that differentiate from Ya and Song took shape. This text's contents were ballads that collected from duchy .In these times, ong and oem?mixed together. Beginning of this, text's quality and function gradually changed, the ceremony satire became poems the most important function. The fifth chapter's contents include two respects: one is the study about poetry creating situation between western and eastern Zhou Dynasties, the other is the arrangement about text edited in Thou Ping monarch's times. The author also investigates numerous satirical poems and those ceremony songs in wo Nan?that were produced after Ping monarch emigrated capital to Luo Yi. In order to bring out the state of text in this time, the author generally describes the states about thirteen Feng. At the latest, the text named as Shi that combined Ya with Feng had shaped, meanwhile, Song still handed down in separate text. The last ch...