What is the Book of Songs?

The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China. From the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, there were 3 1 1 poems, also known as "300 poems". The pre-Qin dynasty was called "Poetry", or the integer was called "Poetry 300". 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.

There are many opinions about the compilation of The Book of Songs in the past dynasties. There are three main types:

First, the theory of poetry collection

Second, the theory of offering poems

Third, the theory of deleting poems

The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems with strong realistic style in China. The Book of Songs contains 305 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, which are divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode. Among them, The Wind includes fifteen covers of The Book of Songs.

Folk songs include some places in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong and northern Hubei (Qi, Chu, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qin) today. They are called "Fifteen Kingdoms" and have 160 songs, which is the core content of the Book of Songs. "Wind" refers to rural wind and wind ballads. "Elegance" is formal music, that is, music songs when nobles enjoy banquets or princes attend meetings. According to the music layout, it can be divided into "Daya" and "Xiaoya", with 105 poems, including "Daya" with 3/kloc-0 poems and "Xiaoya" with 74 poems. Ode is a sacrificial music, which is divided into 3 1 Zhou Song, 4 truffles, 5 commercial songs and 40 * * *. It is one of the five classics. The Book of Songs has a history of more than 2500 years. The methods of expression in The Book of Songs are divided into Fu, Bi and Xing. Together with wind, elegance and praise, it is called "six meanings" The Book of Songs is mainly composed of four words and miscellaneous words.