Book Daya Weeks Of Tribal Epic Study

SHENGMIN,GONGLIU,MIAN,HUANGAI,DAMING in SHIJING·DAYA consist of the epic of Zhou tribe, and the five epics record the several important incidents during Zhou tribe development, which shows Zhou tribe phylogeny. At the same time the five epics contain the Zhou tribe's own culture, and have unique literary value, which deeply influence future literature.The full text consist of preface, text and epilogue. The main parts of epilogue analyse the name of Zhou tribe epic and the descent of Zhou tribe's chieftain. Text includes six chapters.Chinese epic is not well developed, especially for Han ethnic group. SHIJING is the source of Chinese poems, and the five poems, SHENGMIN, LIUGONG, MIAN, HUANGAI, DAMING, record one of Chinese nations, Zhou tribe development history, which get more and more attention from academe since May Fourth Movement, and more and more scholars agree the five poems record Zhou tribe development history.Although the five poems only record the five chieftains of Zhou tribe, at the same time much dispute about descent sequence, and the whole list for Zhou tribe development can't be found due to long history and lack of information, they remains plenty of information for futurity's research about Zhou tribe. Chapter 1 mainly explains the development history of Zhou tribe epic from different dynasties, from which analyse the research directions and methods of different dynasties. From MAOSHIGUXUNZHUAN of Xihan dynasty to MAOSHIZHUANJIAN of Donghan dynasty, then to MAOSHIZHENGYI of Tang dynasty, at last to SHIJIZHUAN of Song dynasty, three peaks for SHIJING research has experienced, and the research for Zhou tribe epic is deep gradually. The research by many dynasties plus the research from various angles in modern and contemporary times, which boost the research for Zhou tribe epic from different angles.Chapter 2 explains the epic topic canto by canto, which explains the five epics from brand new angles. Shengmin describes a story for the birth legend of millet deity, who did agricultural product for good harvest, and founded the country and prayed for the happiness, and praised the forefather of Zhou tribe for the important contribution for Zhou tribe. GongLiu records Zhou tribe's first migration with poem form, and mainly describes the tribe chief, Gong Liu, were honest and respected, and took the people from Tai to Bin area, and founded the country, and made the people live there happily. Mian praised Zhou king for taking the people to migrate Qi area from Bin area. Zhou king was another important chief after Gong Liu who made great contributions to Zhou tribe. Daming consists of eight chapters, and praised that Wen Wang made the foundation for Zhou dynasty and Wu Wang overthrew Shang dynasty and founded Zhou dynasty. The five epics detail the history from origin to development, and praise the six hero ancestors, Hou Ji, Gong Liu, Tai Wang, Wang Ji, Wen Wang and Wu Wang, for the contribution of Zhou tribe.Chapter 3 analyses the historical events in epics. Zhou tribe epics detail the process of Zhou tribe's foundation, development and uniting the nation after overthrowing Shang dynasty, and the development of Zhou tribe is as the axes, and several migrations and several turning wars are as important events, which provides us the valuable documentations for the research.Chapter 4 The five epics, ShengMin, GongLiu, Mian, HuangAi, DaMing in Shijing Daya, contain abundant cultural meanings, and reflect Zhou tribe own agricultural civilization, and show the religious evolution of Zhou tribe, and reappear the Zhou tribe spirit of optimism and pioneering spirit. This chapter emphasizes the analysis of the cultural elements in Zhou tribe epics.Chapter 5 emphasize the research from the artistic achievements of the five zhou tribal epic. First of all, the five tribal epics depict the historical development of tribe, and detail the major historical events before Western Zhou dynasty founded with on the spot record method, and the narrative part becomes one of the best parts in Zhou tribal epics. The epic reappears the major events in the history of tribe, though the description is a little brief, there is no lack of emotional expression and figure sculpture, reappear one picture of the origin of tribal. Secondly, the language of the five epics is very mature. Extensive use of body language for narration, while the epic also use a lot of figures of speech, vivid images.Chapter 6 emphasize the influence to future literary. Shijing's influence for Chinese literary arts almost permeate every field of Chinese literary arts."three hundred cantos age"is absolute a great age, and our culture has already fixed the form since the beginning. As Yiduo Wen said. The five epics as one part of Shijing have their own influence for the future literature.Conclusion conclude the thesis. Shengmin et. the five epics are the excellent poem of Chinese nation, and the great epic for showing Zhou tribe development. The thesis researches the epic from five aspects, main body, history, culture, literature and influence. And do the research for Zhou tribe epic generally and roughly, and hope more researchers focus on the development of zhou tribe epic, and get higher level.