The Book of Songs has a lofty position and far-reaching influence in the history of China literature, which has laid a fine tradition of China's poetry and nurtured generations of poets, thus forming the national characteristics of China's poetry art. It can be said that the Book of Songs is mainly a collection of lyric poems. Since then, China's poetry has advanced along the road of lyric expression initiated by The Book of Songs, and lyric poetry has become the main form of China's poetry.
The Book of Songs as a whole is an image reflection of China's social life during the 500-year rise and fall of the Zhou Dynasty, including the ancestor's entrepreneurial ode and the movement of offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods; There are also banquet exchanges between nobles and resentment against uneven work and rest; There are also touching chapters reflecting labor, hunting and a lot of love, marriage and social customs.
A Brief Introduction to The Book of Songs
The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poems and the earliest collection of poems. It collects poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), **3 1 1, of which 6 are? Sheng poetry, that is, only the title, no content, is called Liu Sheng poetry (Nanxun,? Baihua, Huashu, Youkang, Chongwu, Friendship) reflects the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the week to the weekend.
The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot be verified. 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. "Wind" is a ballad of Zhou Dynasty. "Ya" is the official music of Zhou people, which is divided into "? Xiaoya and? Elegance; Ode is a musical song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and noble ancestral temples, which is divided into ode to, and ode to Shang.