As the beginning of China's ancient poetry and the earliest collection of poems, The Book of Songs contains poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century-6th century BC), with 3 1 1 first, which reflects the social outlook and customs of about 500 years from the early Zhou Dynasty to the weekend.
The authors of The Book of Songs are anonymous, and most of them cannot be verified. Some legends were collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius. The Book of Songs was called "Poetry" in the pre-Qin period, and it was also called "Poetry 300" because there were about 300 poems. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, originally known as the Book of Songs, which has been used ever since.
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The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode. "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 musical song used in Zhou and aristocratic ancestral temples, which can be divided into "Ode to Shang" and "ode to Shang".
The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting people's 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.
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