Is Zhuang Jiang the first poetess in ancient China?

It is clear at the beginning that in people's cognition, Zhuang Jiang is first and foremost a beauty, and Zhuang Jiang's beauty has been praised by people for thousands of years. This first comes from the description of Zhuang Jiang in The Book of Songs. As for her status as a poet, it is rarely mentioned, perhaps because only Yan Yan and Green Clothes are considered as Zhuang Jiang's works in the whole Book of Songs.

In the multi-field and multi-dimensional description of The Book of Songs, of course, the description of women is indispensable. Poetry has praised women since ancient times, and the description of female beauty is also an eternal theme in literary works, and The Book of Songs is no exception. From the women described in The Book of Songs, we can see people's aesthetics in the era of The Book of Songs.

Among many pictures of beautiful women, the beautiful woman Zhuang Jiang in Feng Weishuo is a classic. Through the image of Zhuang Jiang in this poem, we know the aesthetic of women in the era of The Book of Songs-that is, advocating the beauty of being tall and healthy.

Why do you say that? Because this is related to the social system of the Zhou Dynasty and the current social situation at that time, it is also related to the needs of the reproductive population in the Zhou Dynasty.

Zhuang Jiang also has feminine beauty. Although Shuo Ren did not praise Zhuang Jiang's virtue directly, it reflected Zhuang Jiang's reputation as a virtuous woman by combining external beauty with internal beauty.

Yao Jiheng, a writer in the Qing Dynasty, wrote in the Book of Songs: "No one praised beauty since ancient times, because it was a swan song." A Zhuang Jiang, who has climbed to the top of countless beauties for 3,000 years, so where is Zhuang? What kind of aesthetics was embodied in the Zhou Dynasty?

Zhuang Qiang is a man

Zhuang Jiang's sentences in Shuo Ren are "Shuo Ren Qi" and "Shuo Ren Ao", which means that Zhuang Jiang is tall.

Is this the aesthetic view of people in the era of The Book of Songs? To solve this cognition, of course, we should start with Zhuang Jiang's identity and status as a woman. What kind of woman is Zhuang Jiang? Can she represent the beautiful women at that time?

Zhuang Jiang, noble and distinguished. Zhuang Jiang described it like this in Shuo Ren: "The son of Qi Huangong, the wife of Wei Gong. Sister of the East Palace, Aunt of Xing Gong, Tan Ye. " Zhuang Jiang was originally the daughter of Qi Hou, his wife, the sister of Qi Wang, the sister of Xing Hou, and Tan Gong was her brother-in-law.

Zhuang Jiang's position is unparalleled. Perhaps it is because of this dignity and beauty that she has a representative role.

Beauty in Zhuang Jiang —— Beauty of external health What kind of beauty is Zhuang Jiang? The description of Zhuang Jiang in The Book of Songs can be said to be amazing for thousands of years. What is the beauty of these sentences? In the Book of Songs, this poem is used to describe her appearance:

Hands are soft and skin is solidified. Collars are like salamanders, and teeth are like rhinoceroses. A cicada's head is a moth's eyebrow, with a clever smile and beautiful eyes.

She is a healthy beauty. Imagine a person, a sickly face, how can he have a coagulated skin color, a radiant smile and beautiful eyes? Such a beautiful woman, no wonder Yao Jiheng lamented A Farewell.

In people's aesthetic concept, most beautiful women are based on this image, with slender fingers, fair skin, beautiful neck, sweet smile, full of expectations for life and still beautiful.

Zhuang Jiang is not only beautiful in appearance, but also emphasizes "learning from others" in this poem. Shuo Wen Jie Zi is interpreted as "a big head". Extend to Fan Daming. "Master is big, that is to say, Zhuang Jiang is tall. Because in the Zhou Dynasty, both men and women were tall, healthy and uplifting.

Not only in Shuo Ren, but also in other chapters of The Book of Songs, tall men and women are often praised.

For example, in Feng Qi Ziyi, "an Xi, an Xi" depicts a bodybuilder with superb skills, in which his figure is "an Xi", that is, the beauty of being tall and strong.

For example, "Shuo Ren CuO CuO" in "Gao" also praised the dancer's tall and strong figure.

The poems describing women in Chen Fengze North include "There is a beauty, huge and curly" and "There is a beauty, huge and elegant". According to Gao Feng's note: "A man has a crush on a beautiful woman, but he can't get close to her because he wrote this poem to express his worries." So what does this beautiful woman look like? She is "huge and curly" and "huge and elegant", which shows that she must be a tall beauty.

Why does The Book of Songs advocate the beauty of being tall and healthy? This is related to the social system of the Zhou Dynasty and the current social situation at that time.

The era of The Book of Songs is the Spring and Autumn Period in China. At that time, men were bureaucratic and women were at home doing housework. If you want to make your family more stable and prosperous, you can't lack hardworking women.

There are hard-working women in many chapters of The Book of Songs, and women's labor can be seen. At that time, women were mostly engaged in picking:

In "Picking midges and Apples in Zhao Nan", the image of hardworking women picking midges and apples at the water's edge is described.

Amy depicts the image of a hardworking woman picking bananas in the field.

Nan Zhou Lu Fen described the image of an industrious woman chopping wood on the banks of the Ruhe River.

If you want to do heavy work, a thin and sickly woman can't shoulder this heavy responsibility at all, so it is logical to advocate the beauty of being tall and healthy in the Book of Songs.

Another reason why people advocate the beauty of "mastering people" in the era of The Book of Songs is to have children. In the era of The Book of Songs, wars were frequent, and natural disasters made population growth difficult. In addition, due to the improvement of medical standards, the population of various vassal States has decreased sharply, so the demand for population is the fundamental condition for national prosperity.

The Book of Songs also shows people's strong desire for population everywhere. Therefore, in the Zhou Dynasty, the rulers would take various measures to promote population growth. The establishment of "Mid-Spring Moon" encourages people to have children to increase the population.

In some chapters of the Book of Songs, we can see the encouragement of fertility everywhere. For example, "Nan Zhou Shou": "Shou Yu, I look forward to it. You have many children and a prosperous family. Grasshoppers flap their wings and swarms of flies buzz. Il's descendants. Rope. rope. Grasshoppers spread their wings and bunched up all over the house. Descendants of Il, hey. "

The locusts bred in Nan Zhou have strong reproductive ability, are more prosperous than surnames, and have many descendants. At the same time, I also congratulate the family on its prosperity. In the era of The Book of Songs, many locusts became the objects of envy and praise.

Zanthoxylum bungeanum was also prolific and was favored by people at that time. Such as "Tang-style pepper chat": "pepper chat is true, it is a prosperous time. His son, huge. Pepper chats, far away. Zanthoxylum bungeanum chat is real and full of enthusiasm. His son is tall and loyal. Chatting with peppers is far away. " Is to use the metaphor of countless pepper fruits to flourish.

Zhuang Jiang's Beauty —— Inner Moral Beauty

Zhuang Jiang has feminine beauty. On the surface, this poem "Shuo Ren" only depicts the dignity of Zhuang Jiang's position and the beauty of his appearance, and even praises the powerful marriage clan and prosperous etiquette, but says nothing about Zhuang Jiang's virtue. In fact, this is another application of metaphor in the Book of Songs.

Although Shuo Ren didn't directly praise Zhuang Jiang's virtue, it reflected from another aspect that Zhuang Jiang was a well-known virtuous man. For example, Fang Yurun, a poetry critic in the Qing Dynasty, wrote in The Book of Songs: "Zhuang Jiang is rich not only by its beauty, but also by its own wealth, beauty and preciousness."

This poem describes the beauty of Zhuang Jiang with the title of "Shuo Ren", which is the crowning touch. Being a master means not only being tall, but also having a good moral character. Shuoren describes the beauty of Zhuang Jiang, the respect of status and the prosperity of marriage, but it is actually highlighting Zhuang Jiang's sages.

Zhuang Jiang's virtue is that she does not rely on the arrogance of beauty or the madness of wealth. Zhuang Jiang is a peerless beauty, and I believe she must be in love with her country. She was also a princess of Qi. She married Xiao Wang, who was in a weak position at that time, but she was vilified and fell out of favor because she had no son.

But Zhuang Jiang didn't rely on herself as a powerful princess. She was arrogant. No matter in Shuo Ren or the history we know, Zhuang Jiang never bossed around and oppressed Gong Wei with power because of his powerful family background. On the contrary, he compromised and adopted a son under the rumors of everyone.

It is concluded that the beauty of Zhuang Jiang in Shuo Ren is the combination of external beauty and internal beauty, that is, the combination of healthy beauty and moral beauty. From the Beauty of Zhuang Jiang, we can see that people in The Book of Songs treat women's aesthetics from a comprehensive perspective.

Zhou people advocated healthy, natural, energetic, virtuous and dignified women, and this aesthetic view is still of positive significance even today.

As the first collection of China's poems, The Book of Songs describes all aspects of life in the era of The Book of Songs from many aspects. In particular, Shuo Ren shows us a beautiful female image. Her external beauty and internal beauty are precious wealth for us to see people's aesthetics in the era of The Book of Songs through words, and also important wealth for China culture.

The description of Zhuang Jiang in The Book of Songs Shuo Ren has been amazing for thousands of years, and its beauty lies in the description of a woman's external beauty and internal beauty.

The wording of this poem is so beautiful that it is undeniable that it has been amazing for thousands of years. With the development of the times, the beauty of Zhuang Jiang and the connotation of Zhuang Jiang will certainly be accepted and recognized by people at a deeper level.