DAVID ROGERS

Sound memory in the Book of Songs

In the past, many Chinese teachers repeatedly stressed that the Book of Songs is great, but now, in my opinion, the word "great" is too heavy and serious, it is inexplicably given a lot of additional things. I find it more of a folksy, benevolent existence. Compared with the "book of Songs" two words, I think "three hundred poems" more in line with its own spiritual characteristics. In the Warring States Period, "Shi" began to be called "Jing". This character brought great pressure to "Shi" which had never been before. Since then, it has completely become an orthodox, mainstream consciousness, text full of enlightenment and propaganda, and gradually lost its original charm.