《关雎》是《周南》的第一篇，也是《诗经》全集的第一篇，属“四始”之一。关于其主题，历来众说纷纭，约有8说，即：“美后妃之德说”“美太姒之德说”“美文王之德说”“刺时说”“妇德说”“美世子娶妃初昏说”“婚歌说”“恋歌说”。综合察之，当以“恋歌说”较为切合《关雎》本意。这的确是一首描写黄河边一位青年男子热恋采荇菜的“窈窕淑女”并幻想与其成婚过上和谐美满生活的婚恋之歌。其艺术审美价值甚为突出，主要体现在比兴美、意境美、结构美、韵律美与风格美等5个方面。其思想与艺术价值影响后世极其深远。%Guan Ju is the first essay of Zhou Nan and the first one of The Book of Songs which belongs to one of the“four beginnings”. Scholars have various comments on the theme of it, and there are eight schools of thoughts about it, such as,“the good virtue of the concubine”,“the good virtue of TaiSi”,“the good virtue of Emperor Wen”,“the criticism of present politics”,“the women’s virtues”,“the wedding of the prince with a concubine”,“the song of marriage”and“the love song”. In the author’s view, the last one suits the theme of Guan Ju properly. It is a love song of a lad living alongside the Yellow River who falls in love with a lady who is picking banana-plant. He dreams of marrying her to live a happy life. The artistic value is prominent in the five aspects of “comparison, imagism, structuralism, rhythms, and style”. By its thematic and artistic value, this song plays an important and influential effect on later generations.
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