Of the ballads from the fifteen countries in the ancient China compiled in The Books of Songs, Qin Ballads is unique and outstanding. It consists of ten ballads, many of which encourage a moving, strong military spiri...Of the ballads from the fifteen countries in the ancient China compiled in The Books of Songs, Qin Ballads is unique and outstanding. It consists of ten ballads, many of which encourage a moving, strong military spirit. Without Clothes, an impassioning heroic military song is matchless in the 300 hundred ballads, and Yellow Birds, which criticizes the uncivilized burial system at that time, can only be found in Qin Ballads. Why can we find these exciting ballads only in this book? The answer is that there is a close link between the ballads and the history, geography, environment and customs of the country of Qin.展开更多
文摘Of the ballads from the fifteen countries in the ancient China compiled in The Books of Songs, Qin Ballads is unique and outstanding. It consists of ten ballads, many of which encourage a moving, strong military spirit. Without Clothes, an impassioning heroic military song is matchless in the 300 hundred ballads, and Yellow Birds, which criticizes the uncivilized burial system at that time, can only be found in Qin Ballads. Why can we find these exciting ballads only in this book? The answer is that there is a close link between the ballads and the history, geography, environment and customs of the country of Qin.
