A Study of the Image of Wind and Rain in The Book of Songs and The Book of Changes
The Book of Songs and The Book of Changes are the most complete preservation of Chinese classics.Inspiration in The Book of Songs and symbol in The Book of Changes are art representations systems with the same functions.The wind and rain are the earliest natural phenomena that human beings perceive and are often applied to the technique of image in The Book of Songs and The Book of Changes.The cultural implication of wind and rain is complementary to each other,and presents different characteristics of symbolic art in literary and philosophical fields.Inspiration in The Book of Songs and symbol in The Book of Changes are mutually corroborative.The original meaning of the metaphorical nature of wind and rain is constantly extended and developed,deriving life philosophy and political and educational culture,showing the pioneering spirit of seeking truth from facts by our ancestors and the primitive thinking of heaven and man,and breeding the complex and changeable cultural connotation of the wind and rain images.