The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, with 365,438+065,438+0 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, also known as "300 poems". The pre-Qin period was called "Poetry", or it was called "Poetry 300" by integers. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was regarded as a Confucian classic, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which is still in use today. The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China.
The Book of Songs contains 305 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, which are divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode. Among them, the style includes fifteen folk songs on the cover of the Book of Songs, including some places in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong and northern Hubei (Qi, Chu, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qin), which is called the fifteen-country style.
"Wind" refers to country wind and folk songs. "Elegance" means elegant music, that is, music songs enjoyed by nobles at banquets or attended by princes. According to the music layout, they are divided into "Elegance" and "Xiaoya", with a total of 105, including 3 poems of Elegance and 74 poems of Xiaoya. Ode is a sacrificial music song, which is divided into Zhou.
The Book of Songs has a history of more than 2500 years. Its expression techniques are divided into fu, bi and xing, which are called "six meanings" together with wind, elegance and praise. The Book of Songs is mainly composed of four words. The Book of Songs contains 3 1 1 poems, including 6 poems.
In the Warring States period, the ceremony collapsed, a large number of music scores were lost, and the only remaining lyrics were included in the Book of Songs. In the pre-Qin period, it was called The Book of Songs, or its full name was The Book of Songs. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was regarded as a Confucian classic, originally known as the Book of Songs, which has been in use ever since. These poems originally used music and songs as lyrics, and kept the form of combining ancient poetry, music and dance.