The authors of The Book of Songs include people from all walks of life, from aristocrats to ordinary people. According to the different nature of music, it can be divided into three categories: wind, elegance and ode.
Wind, that is, music tune. The national wind is the local music tune of each region. There are Nan Zhou, Zhao Nan, Longfeng, Yan Feng, Feng Wei, Feng Wang, Zheng Feng, Qi Feng, Feng Wei, tang style, Qin Feng, Martin, Feng Qi, Cao Feng, Zhi Feng *** 160 articles and fifteen national styles.
Elegance, that is, righteousness, belongs to the court music, which is a music song played at court banquets or court meetings. According to different music, elegance is divided into 365,438+0 pieces of elegance, 74 pieces of Xiaoya and 65,438+005 pieces of * *. Except some folk songs of Xiaoya, most of them are works of noble literati.
Ode, that is, the joy of offering sacrifices to ancestral temples, mostly praises the merits of ancestors. Including Zhou Song and truffle 3 1 piece.
4 articles, 5 Shang Odes, a total of 40 articles. Odes are all written by noble literati.
The Book of Songs shows the social life of the Zhou Dynasty in an all-round way, and truly reflects the historical features of the slave society in China from prosperity to decline. Some of these works, such as Gong Liu, Mian, Yi, Daming, etc. Daya records the history from the birth to the demise of Hou Ji, which can be said to be an epic of the origin, development and establishment of Zhou tribes.
The Book of Songs is the glorious starting point of China's realistic literature. It is extremely rich in content, with extremely high ideological and artistic achievements, and occupies a very important position in the cultural history of China and even the world.