China has a fairly old place name record. So far, the earliest writing Oracle Bone Inscriptions in China has been found. There are a lot of place names in about100000 pieces of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which are important historical materials for studying the political and geographical structure, territory, mountains and rivers, big cities, neighboring countries and even foreign military activities of Shang Dynasty.
2. The historical and geographical value of The Book of Songs.
Historical geography is one of the important branches of historical geography. According to the viewpoint of modern geography, the elements of physical geography include landform, hydrology, climate, soil, vegetation and animals and plants, so the research content of historical physical geography is mainly reflected in the above aspects. There are many records about the history and physical geography of Shang and Zhou Dynasties in The Book of Songs.
3. The historical, humanistic and geographical value of The Book of Songs.
Historical human geography is also one of the important research contents of historical geography. In the process of historical development, the natural environment has been more or less interfered by human activities directly or indirectly, and this interference has become more and more serious with the development of time. Therefore, the study of historical physical geography, especially environmental changes, can not but consider the role of human beings on the environment.
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The Book of Songs as a whole is an image reflection of China's social life during the 500-year rise and fall of the Zhou Dynasty, including the ancestor's entrepreneurial ode and the movement of offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods; There are also banquet exchanges between nobles and resentment against uneven work and rest; There are also touching chapters reflecting labor, hunting and a lot of love, marriage and social customs.
There are 305 existing poems in The Book of Songs (except 6 Kubinashi orders, ***3 1 1), which are divided into three parts: abundance, elegance and fu.
Wind, a folk song all over the country, is the essence of the Book of Songs. It sang beautiful things such as love and labor, and also sang regret and anger at homesickness and anti-oppression and anti-bullying. Often repeated chanting through repeated superposition. Each chapter in a poem is often only a few words different, which shows the characteristics of folk songs.
Elegance and vulgarity are divided into elegance and vulgarity and Xiaoya, and most of them are poems that offer sacrifices to noble people, pray for a good harvest and praise their ancestors. The author of Daya is an aristocratic scholar, but he is dissatisfied with the real politics. In addition to banquet songs, sacrificial songs and epics, he also wrote some satirical poems reflecting people's wishes. Xiaoya also has some folk songs.
Ode is a poem dedicated to the ancestral temple. The poems in Ya and Ode are of great value to the study of early history, religion and society.
In the above three parts, 40 articles were assigned, including Ya 105 (6 articles without poems, not counting), with the largest number, * * * 160, totaling 305 articles. The ancients took its integer and often said "poetry is 300".
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