The Study On The Yi-Xia Views Of 'the Book Of Songs'

China has been a multiethnic country since ancient times. The Chinese nation has interacted with the surrounding minority peoples since her birth, they have been constant learning from each other and growing. Thus the study of national history has been a very important topic to the study of historical research.'The Book of Songs', as the top of the six classics and the first Poetry Collection in our country, which embodied the poetries of the early Qin Period. It naturally reflected all aspects of social life of the early Qin Period which included the content of ethnic relations.So the ethnic relations which The Book of Songs'reflected had important value. Many researchers who studied on the ethnic history of the early Qin Period have paid great attention to this group, and achieved some accomplishments.But there were relatively few monographs on the study of'The Book of Songs'and the Yi-Xia views of the early Qin Period. This article attempts to analyze the Yi-Xia views of the early Qin Period and also its birth and process of development on the basis of some of the texts involved the national communication. Through analyzing the war and the political marriage between the Hua Xia nationality and her surrounding ethnicities in'The Book of Songs",we can make conclusion about the relationship with the Yi and Xia areas. There must be conflict between a nation which was in the development and growth of inherent and the surrounding ethnicities. When the contradiction came to the irreconcilable stage, we can only solve it by war. For some ethnicity, intermarriage was a way to avoid wars against the stronger ethnicities. By building a political marriage relationship with some powers, it could continue its development and growth under the power's protection. This kind of relationship, which had wars in some time and marriage in other times, decided two completely opposite views in the Yi-Xia views of the early Qin Period. On one hand, it suggests that there was possibility for yi and xia to convert by mutual learning. On the other hand, it revealed that the two ethnicities were totally against each other and there would never be chances for them to marry. It had something to do with the classes to appear the opposition. Most of the Ruling Classes controlled the foreign policy and despise the Yidi because of their sense of superiority. The ruled felt happy because of the ethical sense of pride, but they were fed up with the external wars and wished for peace.On the basis of previous research results, this paper discusses the process of the formation and development of the Yi-Xia views of the early Qin Period, the national concept as'The Book of Songs'reflected, the similarities and differences between the ruling class and the ruled class about the national concept. This paper contains four parts:The first part discusses the process of the formation and development of the Yi-Xia views of the early Qin Period, and it divided into three sections. The first section introduces how did the Yi-Xia views of the early Qin Period form. The second section shows the entwicklungsrahmen of the Yi-Xia views of the early Qin Period. The third section analyses the characteristic of the national concept of the the ethnic history of early Qin Period.In the type of'The Book of Songs',the second party analyzes the relevant cantos and summarized the Yi-Xia views that'The Book of Songs'reflected. It divided into three sections. The first section introduces the wars among different nations which 'The Book of Songs'reflected. The second section analyzes the peaceful contacts and political marriage that'The Book of Songs'shows.On the basis of the first and the second parts, the third part expounds the Yi-Xia views in'The Book of Songs'. There are two sections in this part. The first section analyzes the view of Huaxia center which is also called the Yi-Xia Distinction. The second section talks about ethnic discrimination showed in'The Book of Songs',and we can also call it Chinese Protection against foreign countries. It mainly discusses the discrimination on the non-Huaxia people in south-east areas and north-west areas.The fourth part discusses the different Yi-Xia views between the ruling class and the ruled, and it is divided into two sections. One section analyzes that the ruling class waged wars against the non-Huaxia people actively; the other section discusses the ruled's conflictive mentality about wars.The summary part...