Similarities and differences between The Book of Songs and Songs of the South.
First of all, The Book of Songs is a folk creation, and most of them are folk songs-the fifteen-country style. However, The Songs of the South were written by literati, so at this point, the use of language, the direction of attention and the way of expression are different. Secondly, The Book of Songs is more realistic, because it takes people as the starting point and most of it takes historical reality as a metaphor, so it is the beginning of realism. Chu Ci is the beginning of romanticism, because it uses a lot of myths and other contents with obvious mysterious color of Chu culture, so it is considered as the starting point of romanticism. Moreover, the Book of Songs is mostly four-character poems, mixed with miscellaneous words ranging from two characters to eight characters, which makes an attempt for metrical poems such as quatrains in later generations; However, Chu Ci takes Chu language as its characteristic language and the word "Xi" as its representative, which has caused problems such as "Sao Poetry" in later generations. Finally, the biggest difference between them is that the Book of Songs has become a classic, which is a must-read for all imperial examination students in future generations, and it is also the source of test questions, and has entered the "Four Ku Quanshu Subdivision". And "Chuci" as a tutorial bibliography, compiled into "Ji Bu Siku Quanshu". The status is obvious. Agree 0| Comment