诗雅颂:周代社会政治诉求

Poetry, Odes and Hymns: Social and Political Appealing of the Zhou Dynasty

《诗经》雅颂诸多篇章中大量呈现的呼告语,源于宗教,根植于社会,在内容、作者、使用场合诸方面,缘周代社会的变化,为祭祀、宴乐、典礼甚至个人祷告所用,并最终服务于王权统治,反映了由巫而史的社会渐进过程中,殷周社会主流文化内涵的嬗变,是周代社会政治走向成熟和政治文明觉醒的最初体现。

The Book of Songs consists of three parts-Songs, Odes and Hymns. Numerous poems in Odes and Hymns contain lines of yelling prayers. Rooted in religious and social practices, such prayers were uttered over the rituals of sacrifices and worship, banquets and ceremonies and ultimately served the rules of monarchical power. In case of their themes, authorships and occasions, these yelling prayers reflect the transmutations of mainstream cultural intension of the Zhou Dynasty through the gradual social development from witchcraft to history. Moreover, they are the initial embodiment of the gradual social and political maturity and the disillusion of political civilization of the Zhou Dynasty.