What is the Book of Songs?

The Book of Songs is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry and the earliest collection of poems. It collects poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (pre-1 1 century to the 6th century), **3 1 1 poems, of which 6 poems are Sheng poems, that is, they have only titles but no contents, and are called Sheng.

Creation background

Joo Won?, the birthplace of the Zhou Dynasty, was suitable for agriculture. Elegant poems such as People's Life, Gongliu and Mianmian Gua all show that Zhou became rich by agriculture, and the development of agriculture promoted social progress. Zhou became the master of the world after the conquest, and the patriarchal clan system, land, slave private ownership and the rule of aristocratic lords became the social and political characteristics of this historical period.

Compared with Shang Dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty promoted the rapid development of social spiritual civilization due to the great changes in the economic system. 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.