Abstract:
GUAN JU took a distinct place in Book of Songs. Its importance does not lie only in its special place as the first of the poetry collection but also in the internal relationship between Confucian poetic education and propriety and music refracted in the collection. Specifically, the development of GUAN JU was practically a process of presenting propriety and music. Poetry, propriety and music all pointed to the personality and aesthetic ideal in terms of Confucianism. The poem refracted essential characteristics of Confucian aesthetic spirit and represented the implication of propriety and music. It incorporated the spirit of propriety and music in poetic education and internally prescribed the statement means and emotional condition of the poems itself, which formed the whole of Confucian aesthetic pursuit and ideological orientation.
