Introduction to Selected Reading of The Book of Songs: The Book of Songs is a history of the soul of a nation. The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, and it is the first song of a nation from ancient times to the present. Singing is not singing.
Poetry involves the origin of a nation, and The Book of Songs is a history of the soul of a nation. For almost every nation, history begins with poetry and begins with singing. In the words of German romantics, poetry is the mother of human culture. What I want to touch is the melody, charm, narration and even rhythm of a nation's initial heartbeat.
The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems and the beginning of China's ancient poems. Collected poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (pre-1 1 century to the 6th century), with a total of * * * 31/,among which 6 poems are full, that is, there are only titles but no contents, which is called full poems.
The Book of Songs was written in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. Originally called The Book of Songs. Confucius mentioned this name many times, such as: "The Book of Songs is 300. In a word, it says' thinking without evil' ". "Reciting 300 Poems, teaching them as politics, is unattainable; Make it all-round, not exclusive. Although a lot, what do you think? "
Sima Qian also recorded this name, such as: "Three hundred poems, probably written by sages when they were angry." Because there are 3 1 1 in the later versions handed down from generation to generation, it is called "Poetry 300" for the convenience of narration. It was renamed The Book of Songs because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took The Book of Songs, Li, Yi and Chunqiu as five classics.