The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China ***35 (correct)
The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poetry, the earliest collection of poems, which collected poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (from the 11th century to the 6th century before).
that is, there are only titles but no contents, which are called six poems of Sheng (Nan Chang, Bai Hua, Hua Shu, You Geng, Chong Qiu and You Yi), reflecting the social outlook of about 5 years from the early Zhou Dynasty to the late Zhou Dynasty.
The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them have been unable to be verified. They were collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius. In the pre-Qin period, The Book of Songs was called "The Book of Songs", or it was called "The Book of Songs 3" in whole numbers.
In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, and it was originally called The Book of Songs, which has been used ever since. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: Wind, Elegance and Ode. The technique is divided into Fu, Bi and Xing.
The Wind is a ballad from all over the Zhou Dynasty. Elegance is the formal music of Zhou people, and it is divided into Xiaoya and Daya. Ode is a musical song sacrificed by Zhou Wangting and the aristocratic ancestral temple, and it is divided into Zhou Song, Lu Song and Shang Song.
Confucius once summarized the purpose of the Book of Songs as "innocence" and educated his disciples to read the Book of Songs as the standard for their statements and actions. Among the pre-Qin philosophers, many people quoted the Book of Songs, such as Mencius, Xunzi, Mozi, Zhuangzi, Han Feizi, etc., quoted the sentences in the Book of Songs to enhance their persuasiveness. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, The Book of Songs was regarded as a classic by Confucianism and became one of the Six Classics and Five Classics.
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 astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of social life in the Zhou Dynasty.
the origin of the name
The Book of Songs was written in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, and was originally called The Book of Songs. Confucius has mentioned this name many times, such as: "The Book of Songs is 3, in a word, it says,' Thinking is innocent'". "Recite the" Poetry "for three hundred, and teach it to be political, not up to it; Make it in all directions, not exclusively. Although there are many, do you think? "
Sima Qian recorded the same name. For example, "There are 3 Poems, which are mostly the works of sages who are angry."
Because there are 311 poems in the later versions handed down from generation to generation, it is called "Three Hundred Poems" for the convenience of narration. The reason why it was renamed The Book of Songs was that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took Poetry, Book, Rite, Book of Changes and Chunqiu as the five classics.