Six arts: refers to the six writing styles in the Book of Songs: style, elegance, fu, fu, comparison and xing.
The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, including 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. The so-called "six meanings" in The Book of Songs refers to three poetic forms of "style, elegance and praise" and three expressive techniques of "fu, bi and xing".
All the poems included in The Book of Songs can be sung by music. According to the differences between music and poetry in form, content and language, The Book of Songs can be divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode. Wind music is music with local colors, including the "national style" in Fifteen Places. The "national style" has preserved a large number of oral creations of working people and has strong folk song characteristics. These poems reflect people's living conditions, ideology and aesthetic concepts at that time, and express their true feelings and profound understanding of social life. The language of Guofeng is concise and vivid, full of images, and it is expressed accurately and beautifully with double tones, overlapping rhymes and overlapping words. Formally, it is mostly four words, which rhyme every other sentence and have a sense of rhythm and music. Meanwhile, there are many overlapping chapters, including one. Elegance is the essence of The Book of Songs. Elegant music is the music in the area directly ruled by the Zhou Dynasty. Fu is descriptive, and it is a dance music used to worship the ancestral temple. Elegant and popular poems mostly describe the daily life of the ruling class and are often used at banquets and dances. Most of the elegant music poems praise the "merits" of the ancestors of the Zhou Dynasty and are often performed when offering sacrifices to ancestral temples. Both nursery rhymes and ode poems are music songs performed by rulers on specific occasions, but they are long in length and divided into chapters and sections. Some of them are lyrical and skillfully used in comparison with others, which has a strong image and appeal. Ode poems have a strong religious and literary color, the form is rather old-fashioned, and the poetic language is elegant and heavy. Elegant poems can be divided into elegance and elegance, and hymns can be divided into Zhou Song, truffle and praise.
Style, elegance, praise and fu, comparison and harmony are called the six meanings of the Book of Songs, which have become the six most representative features of the Book of Songs. Style and Bi Xing become the representatives of the realistic creative spirit embodied in The Book of Songs.