The artistic characteristics of "The Book of Songs":

1. The "Book of Songs" focuses on reality and expresses true feelings triggered by real life. This creative attitude gives it a strong and profound artistic charm , is the first milestone of Chinese realist literature. "The Book of Songs: National Style" is the source of Chinese realist poetry. In "July", you can see the blood-stained life of slaves. In "Cutting Sandalwood", you can feel the awakening of the class consciousness of the exploited, and the angry slaves' desire to The ruling class who gained something for nothing boldly raised a question of justice: "If you don't farm or scrounge, how can you take three hundred grains of grain? If you don't guard or hunt, how can there be badgers in the county?" Some poems also describe the workers' response to the rule. Classes engage in direct struggle for the right to exist. In this regard, "Shuo Mouse" has the power to shock people's hearts.

2. The use of Fu, Bi, and Xing is not only an important symbol of the artistic characteristics of the Book of Songs, but also opens up the basic techniques of ancient Chinese poetry creation. There have always been many opinions on the meaning of Fu, Bi and Xing. In short, Fu is a straightforward narrative, that is, the poet expresses his thoughts, feelings and related things in a straightforward manner. Comparison is an analogy, comparing another thing to this thing. The poet has the ability or emotion to use one thing as a metaphor. Xing refers to touching things and inspiring words. Objective things trigger the poet's emotions and cause the poet to sing, so it is mostly at the beginning of poetry. The three techniques of Fu, Bi, and Xing are often used interchangeably in poetry creation, and together they create the artistic image of the poem and express the poet's emotions.

3. The sentence pattern of "The Book of Songs" is mainly four-character sentences, which form an independent chapter, with two to eight-character sentences mixed in between. The two-meter four-character sentence has a strong sense of rhythm and is the basic unit that constitutes the neat rhythm of the Book of Songs. The four-character sentences have a distinct rhythm but are slightly short. The repeated chapters and double-tone rhymes seem to loop back and forth when read, and the rhythm is relaxed and slow. The repetitive structure of repeated chapters and repeated sentences in the Book of Songs not only facilitates repeated chanting around the same melody, but also has a very good effect in meaning expression and rhetoric.

Many of the heavy chapters in the Book of Songs overlap with the same verse in the entire article, with only a few words changed to express the progression of actions or changes in emotion. For example, in the three chapters of "Zhou Nan·Fei Yi", only six verbs are changed to describe the entire process of picking Pei Ju. The complex structure and flexible wording divide the different aspects of picking Yiyi into three chapters. The three chapters complement each other and form a whole in meaning. One song and three sighs are very graceful. Volume 1 of Fang Yurun's "Original Book of Songs" says: "Readers try to calm down and chant this poem, and suddenly listen to the Tian family women, three, three, five, five, in the plain embroidered fields, in the beautiful wind and sunshine, the group of singing answers to each other, the lingering sound is like, Far or near, interrupted or continued, I don’t know how the emotion moves and the spirit becomes broad. This poem does not need to be interpreted in detail to understand its beauty."

Four, the language of "The Book of Songs" is not only. It has musical beauty, and also has a very good effect in expression and rhetoric. The language form of "The Book of Songs" is vivid, rich and colorful, and can often "use less to make more" and "emotional and beautiful". However, Ya, Song and Guofeng are different in language style. Most chapters of Ya and Song use strict four-character sentences with very few miscellaneous words, while Guofeng has more miscellaneous words. In Xiaoya and Guofeng, the use of repeated chapters and refrains is more common, but in Daya and Song, it is less common. There are many modal particles used in the national style, such as "xi", "zhi", "zhi", "si", "hu", "er", "矣", "ye", etc. These modal particles are used in Ya and Song. They have also appeared, but they are not as numerous and varied as the national style. The wonderful use of modal particles in national style enhances the image and vividness of poetry and achieves a vivid state. The different linguistic characteristics of Ya, Song and Guofeng reflect the changes in the society of the times, as well as the differences in the identity of the creative subjects. Most of Ya and Song are works from the Western Zhou Dynasty, written by nobles, reflecting the majesty and elegance of "grace". Most of Guofeng are works from the Spring and Autumn Period, many of which were collected from the folk, and more embody the freedom of new sounds. Unrestrained, closer to the spoken language at that time.

5. Poetry and music are closely related, and all three hundred poems have tunes. The original main uses of music and songs in the Book of Songs were, first, as part of various ceremonies and etiquette, second, for entertainment, and third, to express views on social and political issues.

Zhu Zaiyu, a great musician of the Ming Dynasty, said in his "Complete Book of Music and Rhythm": "Among the three hundred chapters of the Book of Songs, thirty-one of the Daya chapters are all Gong tunes. The seventy-four Xiaoya chapters are all Zheng tunes. The thirty-one chapters of "Zhou Song" and the four chapters of "Lu Song" are all in Yu tune. The 160 chapters in "Guo Feng" are all in Jiao tune. "The poems in "Shang Song" are all in Shang tune. This relationship between music and music has been partially confirmed in the Shangbo Slip "Collection of Music". Mr. Ma Chengyuan believes: "Jianwen is part of the many repertoires collected by music officials according to the order of the five tones and different musical categories. The tune of each song can be determined according to this category when singing, just like the "Book of Songs" , and what is recorded in the brief article is about the popular music in Chu region.

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