Why are Chinese classical love poems so reserved, roundabout and indirect in expressing feelings compared with western love poems

1、why are chinese classical love poems so reserved, roundabout and indirect in expressing feelings compared with western love poems?【abstract】in the history of chinese culture development，confucian culture plays a predominant rolehistorically speaking，agricultural culture and the human race birthplace

2、 have some influences on chinese peoples character. special economic situation and the geographical environment also make the character of the chinese people more euphemistic than westerners, and confucianism has some influences on sex culture development of china。【key words】agricultural culture; co

3、nfucian culture; the human race birthplace; . introduction as we know, chinese people are more reserved, roundabout and indirect in expressing feelings in terms of interaction with others as well as love poems. so whats the reason for this phenomenon? in the following we will do some specific analys

4、es. literature review2.1 the human race birthplace china is somewhat different from the west. the birthplace of chinese is in the yellow river basin, inland areas while western birthplace is in the mediterranean, facing the sea, where the people naturally seem very open and bold, and in the hearts o

5、f inland the people tend to be conservative in their hearts nevertheless they only want to comply with nature. but westerners are eager for extraordinary life and unwilling to be quiet. it is very difficult for chinese people to write direct love poetry like westerners in this case.2.2 agricultural

6、cultureas is well known, the most important characteristic of small-scale peasants is their self-sufficiency. because of the self-sufficiency, the people who engage in agricultural production are becoming more conservative, and do not want to communicate with the outside world while the western econ

7、omic is based on sea. so it is unlikely for a conservative person to survive in that society, thus they become open, and they make love poems more directly.2.3 confucian culture in the thousands of years of chinese flow history, the confucian culture occupy a dominant position in chinese culture. th

8、e limitation between men and women is very strict in the confucian culture, and confucianism has some influences on sex culture development of chinafrom confucius, mencius, sex is regarded as a people of a normal life needs, such as mencius said: food is sex,book of rites, li yun said: diet, men and

9、 women, people the appetence greatly. confucius said: i have never seen a person prefers virtues prefers beauty and illustrate this truth. however, on the other hand, confucius, mencius promote that men and women accept not pro, use li to control. in the future, case is that one side is open and the

10、 other side is imprisoned. to find a balance in the middle, this situation is the same in the various dynasties until the modern, but the times are different, this balance is not the same by which nearly end . so in the later time the attitude of people toward sex tends to be more conservative and s

11、ubtle. confucianism believes that the male should be convergent and conservative while the woman should be modest. in this case, how to write some direct love poems. in addition, the shackles to the women in ancient china there is more than these mentioned. girls playing a former day still must wait

12、 until they married did they have the chance to go out of they bedroom, or their lives had to be spent in their own pariah compound. how to write straightforward love poetry, even if it was written directly love poems, how to let the other side undestand it? the other side cannot know the poetry and

13、 understand each other, after a long time the heart become depressed euphemism. sometimes even acrostic, the rights of women in the west, relatively little more, at least for the spotlight, which gives admirers the opportunity to directly express their love, and the west advocating heroism, the more

14、 powerful poetry more to impress each others heart. furthermore, in china, the love affair, cannot help them, and rely on their parents or “meishuozhiyan” therefore, even if a person no matter how straightforward to pursue there is no use, so the heart of the chinese people are implicit.the chinese

15、people and westerners have quite a different attitude on the topic of sex. if too much emphasis are put on sex in chinese poetry, it will be referred to as decadent” which at the time was considered taboo. as the saying goes the root of all evil is sex led and virtues of filial piety as the first, s

16、o the direct love poems were smothered. instead, westerners recognized that this is a symbol of romantic and westerners pursuit of romance, so the love poems of the west are to be more direct than the chinese love poems. chinese poetry roots in the book of songs, poems about love in the book of song

17、s subtle euphemism, coupled with the chinese people respect the ancient thinking that cannot exceed predecessors, only opened up the path along the predecessors, so there is no straightforward love poem. westerners have a questioning attitude toward everything, especially from the renaissance, think

18、ing more liberated, to accelerate the development of the western love poetry. there is an interesting phenomenon inchina between the emperors or general literati. after a modicum of success in their own thinking they tend to do the same thing that is to revise the book, since book revise is according to personal idea. so the people who do the work will revise the books according to his own idea. even if in ancient china it really existed in straightforward romantic l