Ballads known as Bin Feng in The Book of Songs were mostly created in the dynasty of Western Zhou. The ballad The Seventh Month was perhaps created earlier than the beginning of Zhou. Such ballads were popular perhaps...Ballads known as Bin Feng in The Book of Songs were mostly created in the dynasty of Western Zhou. The ballad The Seventh Month was perhaps created earlier than the beginning of Zhou. Such ballads were popular perhaps in Northern Bin State instead of Southern Bin State. The characteristics are that the ballads manifested that the ancestors of the Zhou nationality were traditionally good at farming, that the people were eagerly yearning towards a peaceful life, and that the using of metaphors is very much similar to that of the explanations of diagrams for divination of the same type in The Book of Changes, revealing a tinge of the elegant demeanor of poems and songs at the beginning of the Western Zhou dynasty. These make it possible for Bin Feng to occupy a fairly important position in the Feng of the fifteen states.展开更多
文摘Ballads known as Bin Feng in The Book of Songs were mostly created in the dynasty of Western Zhou. The ballad The Seventh Month was perhaps created earlier than the beginning of Zhou. Such ballads were popular perhaps in Northern Bin State instead of Southern Bin State. The characteristics are that the ballads manifested that the ancestors of the Zhou nationality were traditionally good at farming, that the people were eagerly yearning towards a peaceful life, and that the using of metaphors is very much similar to that of the explanations of diagrams for divination of the same type in The Book of Changes, revealing a tinge of the elegant demeanor of poems and songs at the beginning of the Western Zhou dynasty. These make it possible for Bin Feng to occupy a fairly important position in the Feng of the fifteen states.
