Interpretation of Yi Yu Lai Ji in BeiFeng GuFeng of The Book of Songs
BeiFeng GuFeng in The Book of Songs is a typical poem about an abandoned wife.Its author depicts the loneliness,helpless-ness and sadness after abandonment in a touching and poignant manner,which consequently reflects the husband's fondness of the new and indifference to the old.At the end of the poem there exists the phrase Yi Yu Lai Ji,among which Ji has challenged understanding and has been interpreted in different ways,such as love,coat,anger word,exclusion,grudge,etc.It has been concluded that Ji is bet-ter interpreted as love for its poetic context and reasonable acceptability in comparison with the diversified meanings with combination of its connotated emotion and semantic logic and with reference to sentiment of relevant poems and concrete usage of the term.