The Combination Of Plants In "the Book Of Poetry" And Social Folk Customs

"The Book of Poetry"is the most oldest collection of poems in China, records many kinds of plants. The plants in"The Book of Poetry"record the way of life about ancestors by the exiting of nature and cultural symbol, expressing the world of ancestor's emotion. The article focuses on the close and honest combination of plants and social folk customs, in order to seeking social morals and moral character at that time, and the core of spirit linking with plants.The article establishes itself in version, studies things and their names as foundation, uses sociology, cultural anthropology, folklore etc comprehensively as the methods, elaborates from three factors, such as the effects of plant in sacrificial rites, the relationship between plant and funeral customs, and the marriage customs, investigates cultural sediments accumulated over the years, art's explanation, and feeling experience through plant's image, thus reveals the profound influence on Chinese poetry and folklore.The article doesn't analyse all kinds of plants in"The Book of Poetry", and there isn't right in structure.We will make up for it in future.