In fact, these two sentences are related. The whole sentence is corrected by Shu Yao, and Mandarin is wonderful. It means praising a woman's slim figure, that is, comfort means stretching, and gentleness means graceful. Correcting the original text means that three ropes are woven together. Here refers to a woman's slender waist like a rope, and the latter sentence is an idiom, referring to colorful clouds like splendid scenery.

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems at the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry. It collects 365,438+065,438+0.5 from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, and 6 of them are Sheng poems, that is, there are only titles but no contents, which are called Six Sheng poems.

The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot be verified. They were collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius. In the pre-Qin period, the Book of Songs was called "The Book of Songs", or it was called "The Book of Songs 300" by integers. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which has been in use ever since.

Confucius once summarized the purpose of the Book of Songs as "innocence" and educated his disciples to read the Book of Songs as their standard of speech and action. Among the pre-Qin philosophers, many people quoted The Book of Songs, such as Mencius, Xunzi, Mozi, Zhuangzi and Han Feizi. Quote the sentences in the Book of Songs to enhance your persuasiveness.

The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.