"xunzi" Dynasty "poem"

In the middle of Chunqiu Period, fu"Poetry"in Diplomatic situations or Banquet and quoting this book during talking or speech became the atmosphere in the whole society. And in Warring States Period, "Poetry" appearanted in the books of pre-Qin thinkers massively, as arguments or illustrations to provide the support for their viewpoint.With compares to other books, the quoted"Poetry"number in articles of"Xun Zi"is to be most in pre-Qin thinkers books. There are 83"Poetry"quotes total in the 27th of 32 articles. This phenomenon may explain two problem: one has reflected"Xun Zi"to "Poetry" the value, and the other hand explained that"Poetry",the pre-Qin ancient book beginning to alls of the various schools of thought has had the huge influence to Xun Zi thought and the creation, and so on.This article, to the situation of"Poetry"quoted in"Xun Zi", has carried on comprehensive careful combing and analyzes. Xun Zi is quoting "Poetry" makes the argument to divide three kinds of situations probably: First, quoting "Poem" the original meaning, this kind of situation is quite few; Second, quotes out of context, in view of "Poem" an even character, the initiation expunges from a list, this idea of"the Poetry used for me"is yery popular in pre-Qin thinkers when they need to quote"Poetry"; Third, using the quote as an analogy, regards the analogy the verse to apply during the discussion, this is also the most major characteristic about"Xun Zi"quoting"Poetry".