The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of ancient Chinese poems. It collects poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), including ***3 1 1, among which 6 poems are flourishing.
That is, there are only titles, but no contents, which are called Sheng Liu (Nanchang, Yougeng, Chongqiu and Youyi), reflecting the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the weekend.
The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot be verified. They were 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.
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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 thus formed the national characteristics of China's poetry art.
The Book of Songs is based on real social life, and there are no false, grotesque and supernatural myths. Sacrifice, feasting and farming described in it are the products of social economy, ritual and music culture in Zhou Dynasty, and it describes the political situation, war corvee, marriage and love at that time.
It shows the political situation, social life, customs and people's feelings of the Zhou Dynasty. This spiritual tradition of "hungry people sing about their food, and laborers sing about their affairs" has been inherited and carried forward by future generations.
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