Let's analyze the composition of the Book of Songs: The Book of Songs is divided into national style, size, week and week. The national wind should be a folk song. Compared with official songs, folk songs are so-called pop songs. The size is the regular repertoire of literati gathering, which is equivalent to "classical music" or drama; Odes, that is, official songs, such as the National Anthem Bar (march of the volunteers) and the Quasi-National Anthem (Dongfanghong during the Cultural Revolution, the helmsman sailing in the sea, and now singing about the motherland).
As we all know, poetry is the essence of language. "If you don't learn poetry, you have nothing to say" should mean that if you don't learn the essence of a language, you can't speak vividly and accurately. Then, in the era of Confucius, The Book of Songs should be the "encyclopedia of popular songs and classic songs" at that time. Therefore, by studying poetry, you can make your language more vivid, beautiful and accurate.
So what do we do now? Do you still read the Book of Songs? With the changes of the times, "pop songs" are also changing. By the Warring States Period, Songs of the South had become popular. In the Han Dynasty, four-character poems were gradually replaced by five-character poems and seven-character poems and became popular. This form of poetry conforms to the language habits of China people, so the lyrics of popular songs are fully displayed in five words and seven words. From the vulgarity of Chinese poetry in the May 4th Movement to the elegance of Tang poetry. Tang poetry has also become a brilliant peak in China poetry. Then long and short sentences became popular, from Poems in Song Dynasty to Qu Zi Ci in Yuan Dynasty. From the unified "five or seven words" to "long and short sentences", it gradually moves towards secularization.
By the way, secularization is the beginning of poetry. Wind is a folk song and a popular song. So popularity, vulgarity and vulgarity are inevitable and inevitable. But under the influence of people's pursuit of perfection, "elegance" came into being. It should be said that elegance is the product of people's self-improvement. This is true in the field of poetry, but not in the field of words and deeds. So it seems that this is a question of transforming popular culture into elegant culture.
It turns out that idolized people are "learning poetry"! Although they are a little shallow, they are still learning. However, it is not enough to have a little "wind" in optics. We should also learn a little elegance, the Book of Songs of Chu, Tang poetry, Song poetry, Yuanqu and Ming and Qing couplets. They should go from eloquent to amiable; From vulgarity to elegance. Isn't it the correct guidance that our university should do? That is, to guide the passion of idolization, a young man, to improve his spiritual realm, so that they can start with poetry and end with ceremony. In other words, let them start from idolization, gradually improve their cultural taste, make their words and deeds elegant, and be more like a gentleman and lady. Of course it's not good to be unable to speak, and it's not necessarily good to just say rude words.
Learning poetry means starting from the vulgar "wind", gradually learning "elegance", and finally being able to act according to "courtesy" and reach the realm of "music". Perhaps this understanding can be close to Confucius' original intention of "nothing to say without learning poetry"