How many poems are there in The Book of Songs?

1, there are ***305 poems, also known as "300 poems", which are divided into three types: style, elegance and vulgarity, and praise. There are 60 poems by Feng 105 poems by Ya, 40 poems by Ode and 6 poems by Sheng. The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in the history of China. The Book of Songs was originally called Poetry.

2. Confucianism has regarded it as a classic since the Han Dynasty, so it is called The Book of Songs. (The official use of The Book of Songs should begin in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty-Qu Wanli). Mao Heng in Han Dynasty annotated The Book of Songs, so it was also called Mao Shi.

3. Most of the authors of The Book of Songs cannot be verified. The area involved is mainly the Yellow River Basin, starting from Shanxi and eastern Gansu in the west, southwest Hebei Province in the north, Shandong in the east and Jianghan Basin in the south.

4. It collected 305 poems about 500 years from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, among which 6 poems only had titles. It was honored as a Confucian classic in the Western Han Dynasty, and it was one of the "Five Classics" respected by Confucianism. Originally called The Book of Songs, it has been used ever since. Music is divided into three parts: wind, elegance and ode. Among them, Wind is a local folk song with 15 national styles and 160 songs. "Elegance" is mainly court music songs, divided into elegance and vulgarity, 105; Ode is mainly ancestral temple music songs, with 40 songs.

5. The main techniques of expression are Fu, Bi and Xing. "Fu" means paving the way, "Bi" means figuratively, and "Xing" means saying something else first to arouse the words to be sung. Folk songs have the highest ideological value and artistic value in The Book of Songs. "Hungry people sing about their food, and laborers sing about their affairs." Vatan, Storytelling and Mang are Feng's representative works.

6. The Book of Songs has a far-reaching influence on the development of poetry in later generations, and has become the source of the realistic tradition of China's classical literature. The Book of Songs handed down in the world is a collection of poems handed down by Mao Heng and Scapharca subcrenata.

7. The first sentence of The Book of Songs is "Guan Guan Sui dove is in Hezhou", and the "river" mentioned here is the Yellow River where we respect our mother. There were "pigeons" and "continents" on the "river" in those days, with lush vegetation and flowers. Nowadays, it is hard to find a few mulberries on the "mulberry shop" for village women's wild trysts.