On Mencius Giving New Meaning to Religion and Politics in Poetry

It is believed that Mencius' confucian religion and politics spirit has a far-reaching influence in intellectuals.At that time,the poetry is experiencing a combination of the music and dancing to the separation process.Accounting the scope of this background,we will find in the poetry changes the course of Mencius in the poetry to give the ultimate political and religious significance with other thinkers difficult to match the contribution.The time of Confucius,poetry music and dance has not yet separated,the poem teaching that is music education,it means Confucius does not give poetry of the text to independent political moral education.The intelligentsia spirit in Tale of Han Ying s Collection of Poetry was stemmed from Mencius which implies that the affection of Mencius' intelligentsia spirit in Western Han,about 300 years were earlier than we thought.