《诗经.大雅.民劳》的主旨迄今主要有四类观点。之所以产生这四种不同的观点,根源就在于历代学者对诗中的“小子”一词以及诗文本内在逻辑的理解有不同。通过综合考察诗中“小子”一词的含义与诗文本的内在逻辑关系,得出两点结论:一、诗中的“小子”不是指代周王,而是指作者的同僚。二、作者通过此诗表达了对同僚的殷切期望。 So far, there are mainly four kinds of views on the subject of “The Book of Songs. The reason why these four different viewpoints arise is that the scholars of different ages have different understanding of the ”boy“ and the internal logic of poetry. By comprehensively examining the internal logical relationship between the meaning of the word ”kid“ and the poem text in the poem, we come to two conclusions: First, the ”kid" in the poem does not refer to the king, but refers to the author Colleague Second, the author expressed his sincere expectation to his colleagues through this poem.