Most of the poems recorded in the Book of Songs come from folklore. According to the nature of music, the Book of Songs can be divided into three categories: wind, elegance, and song. "Wind" is mainly a pop song from the Yellow River Basin, with a total of 160 songs from 15 countries. "Ya" mainly refers to court music, including Xiaoya and Daya. ***105 articles. "Ode" mainly includes songs from ancestral halls, including popular songs with the highest ideological and artistic value, including Zhou songs, Lu songs and Shang dynasties. There are 40 articles in total.
The expression techniques of "Song Book" are "Fu", "Bi" and "Xing". "福" means "tell your business directly"? "Compare" means "compare this to another"? "Xing" means "say other words first to inspire the words to be sung." The area covered by the project is mainly the Yellow River Basin, with Shanxi and Gansu in the west, Hebei Province in the north and southwest, Shandong in the east, and Jianghan Basin in the south . The essence of the Book of Songs is part of popular songs. It clearly expresses the people's love and hate, the people's resistance and struggle, truly reflects the social outlook at that time, and lays a realistic foundation for Chinese classical poetry.
The "Book of Songs", "Historical Records", "Book of Rites", "Book of Changes" and "Spring and Autumn" are collectively called the "Five Classics" of Confucianism and are classic reading materials for Confucian students. The creation of "The Book of Songs" has a history of more than 2,500 years. Most of them are works from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. For more than twenty years, it has been highly praised and has had a profound and extensive impact on the development of Chinese literature.
The Book of Songs also plays an important role in the history of China's development. It reflects the true appearance of the literary language 2,500 years ago and has a rich vocabulary. It is an important material for the study of ancient phonology. The Book of Songs is the first poetry collection discovered in China, including 305 poems from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period. The Book of Songs was written in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. They say it was compiled by Confucius, the founder of Confucianism. At first it was called "Poem" or "Three Hundred Poems". Confucianism began to call it "The Book of Songs" in the Han Dynasty. The existing "Book of Songs" was handed down by Mao Heng in the Han Dynasty, so it is also called "Mao Shi". The author of most of the poems in the Book of Songs cannot be verified.