诗经
- 语言:
- 英语
- 译者:
- James Legge
- 状态:
- 完整作品
- 作者归属:
- 佚名或集体成书
- 文本状况:
- 文本清晰
- 篇幅:
- 约 55,200 词 · 262 个段落
引用本作品
- APA诗经. (n.d.). 诗经. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/zh/works/shijing/the-book-of-poetry-shih-king-legge
- MLA诗经. "诗经." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/zh/works/shijing/the-book-of-poetry-shih-king-legge.
- Chicago诗经. 诗经. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/zh/works/shijing/the-book-of-poetry-shih-king-legge.
内容简介
《诗经》，理雅各英译本。
背景与流传
三百零五首诗，采集于公元前十一世纪到前七世纪之间：民间的歌、朝廷的颂和祭祀的乐章。它是五经之一，也是孔子引得最多的一部书；《论语》里说，没有学过它的人「无以言」。理雅各十九世纪的译本至今仍是英语世界标准的全译本。
这是编辑性背景，不是可引用的来源：与作品本身的段落不同，这些说明无法在语料库中核对。
The character Shû, as formed by the combination of two others, one of which signified 'a pencil,' and the other 'to speak,' supplied, we saw in its structure, an indication of its primary significance, and furnished a clue to its different applications. The character Shih was made on a different principle, that of phonetical formation, in the peculiar sense of these words when applied to a large class of Chinese terms. The significative portion of it is the character for 'speech,' but the other half is merely phonetical, enabling us to approximate to its pronunciation or name. The meaning of the compound has to be learned from its usage. Its most common significations are 'poetry,' a poem, or poems,' and a collection of poems! This last is its meaning when we speak of the Shih or the Shih King. The earliest Chinese utterance that we have on the subject of poetry is that in the Shû by the ancient Shun, when he said to his Minister of Music, 'Poetry is the Expression of earnest thought, and singing, is the prolonged utterance of that expression.' To the same effect is the language of a Preface to the Shih, sometimes ascribed to Confucius and certainly older than our Christian era: 'Poetry is the product of earnest thought. Thought cherished in the mind becomes earnest; then expressed in words, it becomes poetry.…