1. Chapter 305 of "The Book of Songs", also known as "Three Hundred Poems", is divided into Feng, Ya and Song. There are 160 poems on wind, 105 poems on Ya, 40 poems on odes, and 6 poems on sheng, which have a purpose but no words. The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in Chinese history. The Book of Songs was originally called The Book of Songs.
2. Since the Han Dynasty, Confucianism has regarded it as a classic, so it is called "The Book of Songs". (The official use of "The Book of Songs" should start from Qu Wanli in the early Southern Song Dynasty). Mao Heng and Mao Chang in the Han Dynasty once commented on the Book of Songs, so it is also called "Mao Shi".
3. Most of the authors of the poems in the Book of Songs cannot be verified. The area involved is mainly the Yellow River Basin, starting from Shanxi and eastern Gansu in the west, southwestern Hebei Province in the north, Shandong in the east, and the Jianghan Basin in the south.
4. It collects 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, about 500 years ago, six of which only have titles. It was revered as a Confucian classic during the Western Han Dynasty and was one of the "Five Classics" revered by Confucianism. It was originally called the "Book of Songs" and is still used today. Musically, it is divided into three parts: Feng, Ya, and Song. Among them, "Feng" refers to local folk songs, which include fifteen national styles, with a total of 160 songs; "Ya" mainly refers to court songs, which are divided into Daya and Xiaoya,* **One hundred and five chapters; "Ode" is mainly ancestral temple music, there are forty songs.
5. The main techniques of expression are Fu, Bi and Xing. "Fu" means to elaborate (to state the matter directly), "bi" means to use metaphors, and "xing" means to preface other things to trigger the words to be chanted. Folk songs have the highest ideological and artistic value in the Book of Songs. "The hungry sing about their food, and the laborers sing about their work." "Cutting Sandalwood", "Shuo Shu" and "Meng" are representative works of "Wind".
6. The Book of Songs has a profound influence on the development of poetry in later generations and has become the source of the realist tradition of classical literature in my country. The Book of Songs circulating in the world today is the collection of Mao's poems passed down by Mao Heng and Mao Chang.
7. The first sentence of the first chapter of "The Book of Songs" is "Guan Guan Sui Jiu, in the River Island". The "river" mentioned here is the Yellow River, which we respectfully call our mother. Back then, there were "doves" and "islands" on the "river", with lush vegetation and birds flying and singing. But today, not to mention that such oases, which were specially used for gentlemen and ladies to perform "good Qiu" dramas, have disappeared in the Yellow River. , even in the "Pu Shang among the mulberries", which is only for village women and country girls to have wild trysts, it is difficult to find a few mulberry trees, and there is shallow water and sand in the "Pu".