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This is a 5 page paper comparing the difference in the attitudes toward sex and love in the ancient Chinese and Egyptian love poems and songs. Ancient songs and poetry written around the 1,000 B.C. vary greatly from culture to culture. The Chinese lyric poetry found in “The Book of Songs” tells of lovers and passion which are retrained by honor and of the conservative exchange of gifts during courtship. The lovers are restless but willing to wait to honor the fair and beautiful maidens. Egyptian poetry however, also written around 1,000 B.C. has a completely different style. The themes and words of the poems are much more erotic based and rather than conservative courtship are much more liberal in their attitude toward sex where the women are also active participants. These two different approaches are highly reflective of the Chinese and Egyptian cultures during this time period. The Chinese “Book of Songs” is considered as a text which depicts the morals valued by the Chinese culture while the Egyptian love poems reflect the Egyptian culture at the time where men and women interacted on a more liberal level and their society accepted erotica as found in other artifacts of that time period.
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in "The Book of Songs" tells of lovers and passion which are retrained by honor and of the conservative exchange of gifts during courtship. The lovers are restless but willing
to wait to honor the fair and beautiful maidens. Egyptian poetry however, also written around 1,000 B.C. has a completely different style. The themes and words of the poems are
much more erotic based and rather than conservative courtship are much more liberal in their attitude toward sex where the women are also active participants. These two different approaches are
highly reflective of the Chinese and Egyptian cultures during this time period. The Chinese "Book of Songs" is considered as a text which depicts the morals valued by the Chinese
culture while the Egyptian love poems reflect the Egyptian culture at the time where men and women interacted on a more liberal level and their society accepted erotica as found
in other artifacts of that time period. Ancient Chinese lyric poetry, with one of the best known examples entitled "The Book of Songs"
or "The Classic of Poetry" originated around 1,000 B.C. and represents the heritage of the Chou people. The collection of 305 songs represent many aspects of the Chou culture including
war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of the culture and tradition of the
time but also were used by scholars and philosophers throughout their conversations in order to support an argument regarding diplomacy and the poems were later adopted into the Confucius school
around the 4th century B.C. Similar to how the heroic values of the ancient Greek civilization were to come from the writings of Homer, the Classic of Poetry is to
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