西周末世厉王、幽王之时,昏君暴虐荒淫,致使朝纲败坏、政治黑暗,生灵涂炭,西周王朝已经走到日薄西山的历史边缘。当此之际,王朝内部一些忠贞爱国的卿士大夫怀着忧国忧民的志士情怀和铁肩担道义的救世职责,遵循以诗为谏的历史传统,大胆针砭时政,讽谏君王,指斥群小,他们诗化的谏章遂成流传后世的优秀的政治讽谏诗。 When the Western Zhou Dynasty King Li Shi, King of the faint, monstrous brutal abasement, resulting in the corroboration of Gang, political darkness, life confused, Western Zhou Dynasty has come to the edge of history. At this time, some loyal and patriotic insiders in the dynasty, pregnant with patriotic sentiments and shoulder-saving responsibilities, followed the historical tradition of using poetry as a remonstrance and boldly pointed out the current affairs and remonstrated the monarchs , They poetic remonstrance then into the well-known posterity of the political irony.