A Brief Introduction to The Book of Songs
The Book of Songs is divided into three parts, namely, style, elegance and vulgarity, and fu. Among them, "Wind" includes "Wind of Fifteen Countries", with 160 poems, which is the core content of The Book of Songs; "Ya" is divided into "Ya" and "Ya", with 105 poems; Ode is divided into Zhou Song, Truffle and Ode to Shang Dynasty, with a total of 40 songs.
1, wind
It includes folk songs from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei and Shandong (Qi, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qin). Most of them are folk songs in the Yellow River valley, and most of them are polished folk songs called "Fifteen Kingdoms", with 160 pieces, which is the core content of the Book of Songs. "Wind" refers to rural wind and wind ballads. (Fifteen national styles: Yi, Yi, Wei, Wang, Zheng, Qi, Wei, Tang, Qin, Chen, Yi, Cao, Yi.
2. "ah"
Divided into Xiaoya (74 pieces) and Elegance (3 1 piece), it is a court music song with *** 105 pieces. "Elegance" is formal music, that is, music songs when nobles enjoy banquets or princes meet at court. Elegance is mostly written by aristocrats, and Xiaoya expresses her personal feelings. Of course, most of them are works of literati, but there are also many words in Xiaoya that are similar to wind and ballads, such as yellow birds, going their separate ways, valley wind, why the grass is not yellow and so on.
Step 3 chant poems
They are music songs and epics sacrificed in ancestral halls, and most of them praise the achievements of ancestors. Zhou Song has 365,438+0 pieces, 4 pieces, 5 pieces of loose top and 40 pieces of * *. Originally, it was a musical song to praise the gods or ancestors when offering sacrifices, but all four poems of Truffle are to praise the living and beautiful Lu Xigong, and there are also flattering poems in Shang songs.