A Research on"Having Protected the Son"and the Theme of Yi in Da Ya
The phrase"having protected the son"in the poem Yi from The Book of Songs could serve as a starting point for re-interpreting the poem's meaning.In the pre-Qin literature,"protected the son"and"preserving the son"were similar.In the nursing and guardianship etiquette system of Shang and Zhou Dynasties,it extended the official meaning of education and auxiliary wing from holding negative meaning.Then,with the mood of Yi,it should be made by the minister of education officer in the Republican period,to admonish the prince Jing.But lim-ited to the historical data,its author has been difficult to confirm.Yi should be in the period of King Ping of Zhou,it was compiled into the text of The Book of Songs,in order to propagate the political image of Duke Wei Wu and the difference of era led to the error in records the order of poems.It is worth further distinguishing whether the or-der and the original meaning of a poem like Yi,which takes beauty as its creative function,are in accord with each other.
Yihaving protected the sonpreserving the sonpoetic will