The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode. "Wind" is a ballad of Zhou Dynasty. Elegant music is the official music of Zhou people, which is divided into harmony and elegance. Ode is a musical song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and noble ancestral temples, which is divided into ode to, and ode to Shang.
There are 40 carols. The explanation of ode was first found in Preface to Poetry: "The eulogist was described as beautiful and virtuous, and he also told the gods about his success."
According to the interpretation of Ruan Yuan's "recess", "capacity" means dancing capacity, and "description of beauty and goodness" means dancing action to praise "virtue". For example, "Zhou Song Wei Qing" is a music song dedicated to King Wen, and "Xiao Xu" said, "Shoot elephants and dance."
Zheng Xuan's Biography of Mao Poetry says, "It's like dancing, like stabbing and dancing when fighting." That is to say, the plot and action of Zhou Wenwang's military conquest are expressed in the form of dance, which can prove that he not only sang but also danced when he worshipped his ancestral temple. "Song and dance" can be said to be the characteristics of ancestral temple music and songs.
Modern scholars also believe that Fu is the joy of offering sacrifices to ancestral temples, and some of it is dance music. Famous poems mainly include Qing Palace, Life of Wei Tian and Xixi.
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The Historical Background of The Book of Songs
The works in The Book of Songs were produced after the downfall of Shang Dynasty in Zhou Wuwang (BC 1066). "Song of Zhou" is the earliest work in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is the work of noble literati. It is mainly composed of ancestral temple music songs and ode to the gods, and some of them describe agricultural production.
Daya is the product of the prosperous period of the Zhou Dynasty and the only remaining epic in ancient China. Xiaoya was born in the late Western Zhou Dynasty and moved eastward. Truffles and Ode to Shang Dynasty were both produced after Zhou Shi moved eastward (770 BC).
The Western Zhou Dynasty replaced the Shang Dynasty, and the great changes in the economic system prompted the society to make great progress in spiritual civilization. As a representative of literature, the appearance of The Book of Songs is an inevitable product of the progress of the times, which in turn promotes the progress of social civilization.
The Influence of The Book of Songs on Ancient Literature
1, The Book of Songs is mainly a collection of lyric poems. At this point, China's poems advanced along the road of lyric expression initiated by The Book of Songs, and lyric poetry became the main form of China's poems.
2. The passion for reality, strong political and moral consciousness and sincere and positive attitude towards life shown in The Book of Songs were summarized as "elegance" by later generations, which directly influenced the creation of later poets. Such as the poems of Qu Yuan and Han Yuefu, and the generous voice of Jian 'an poets, are the direct inheritance of this spirit. Later poets often advocate the spirit of elegance to carry out literary innovation. Such as Chen Ziang's poetic innovation, Li Bai and Bai Juyi.
3. Bi Xing provided a model for later writers in artistic expression, and became a unique national cultural tradition in China's ancient poems and songs. Use Bixing to form China's ancient poems? Artistic features with infinite charm.
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