In The Book of Songs: Wei Fengmeng, a poem with a similar artistic conception to "Childhood Sweethearts" is "The banquet of the general horn, talking and laughing."
The Book of Songs is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry and the earliest poetry collection. It collects poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (11th century BC to 6th century BC), with 311 poems. Six of them are Sheng poems.
That is, there are only titles but no content, which are called the six Sheng poems ("Nanmei", "Baihua", "Huashui", "Yougeng", "Chongqiu" and "Youyi"), which reflect the Zhou Dynasty. The social outlook for about five hundred years from the early to the late Zhou Dynasty.
The author of the Book of Songs is unknown, and most of it cannot be verified. It is said that it was collected by Yin Jifu and compiled by Confucius. "The Book of Songs" was called Shi in the pre-Qin period, or the round number was called "Three Hundred Poems". It was revered as a Confucian classic during the Western Han Dynasty and was first called the Book of Songs, which is still in use today.
The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: "Wind", "Ya" and "Song". In terms of technique, it is divided into "Fu", "Bi" and "Xing". "Wind" refers to ballads from various places in the Zhou Dynasty; "Ya" refers to the formal music of the Zhou people, which is divided into "Xiaoya" and "Daya"; "Song" refers to the music and songs worshiped by the Zhou royal court and noble ancestral temples, and is divided into "Zhou Song" "Song of Lu" and "Song of Shang".
The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and banquets, and even celestial phenomena, landforms, animals, plants and other aspects. It is the social life of the Zhou Dynasty. of a mirror.
Creative background:
Zhou, the ancestral home of the Zhou Dynasty, was suitable for agriculture. Poems such as "Shengmin", "Gongliu" and "Mianmian Guolai" in "Daya" all show that Zhou Yuan was suitable for agriculture. It thrives on agriculture, and the development of agriculture promotes social progress. After King Wu defeated Zhou, Zhou became the ruler of the world. The family patriarchal system, private ownership of land, slaves, and the rule of aristocratic lords became the social and political characteristics of this historical period.
The Western Zhou Dynasty replaced the Yin and Shang Dynasties. In addition to the tyranny of the Shang Dynasty, it was mainly related to the implementation of the slave economic system. After the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty, in order to ease the sharp contradiction between production relations and productivity and ease the class struggle, slavery was changed into serfdom.
As Wang Guowei said in "On the System of the Yin and Shang Dynasties": "The changes in Chinese politics and culture did not occur during the Yin and Zhou dynasties... The three major changes during the Yin and Zhou dynasties originated from their appearance. In other words, it is nothing more than the rise and fall of a family and the transfer of cities. From this point of view, the old system is abolished and the new system is established, and the old culture is abolished and the new culture is established."