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 (1 1 century to the 6th century), **3 1 1, among which six poems are Sheng poems, that is, only the title has no content, which is called Six Sheng Poems.
The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot 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 300" by integers. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which has been in use ever since. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode.
Techniques are divided into Fu, Bi and Xing. "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 music song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and aristocratic ancestral temples, which is divided into, and Shang songs.
The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.
The origin of the name
The Book of Songs was written in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. Originally called "poetry". Confucius mentioned this name many times, for example: The Book of Songs is 300. In a word, it is said that the mind does all kinds of evil. Recite 300 poems and teach them to be political, not to achieve; Make it all-round, not exclusive. Although a lot, but also xi thought?
Sima Qian also recorded this name, such as: 300 poems, which are generally attributed to the angry actions of sages. Because the version handed down later recorded 3 1 1, it was called "Three Hundred Poems" for the convenience of narration. It was renamed The Book of Songs because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took The Book of Songs, Li, Yi and Chunqiu as five classics.