What music songs did Confucius systematically arrange in his later years?

In his later years, Confucius systematically arranged the music songs in The Book of Songs. During the Zhou Dynasty, there was an official who collected local poems and handed them over to the imperial court for collation. The original 3,000 poems were deleted by Confucius, and now there are 3 1 1, which is the existing Book of Songs.

Confucius said that "there are 300 poems, in a word, thinking is innocent" (there are more than 300 poems in The Book of Songs, which can be summed up in one sentence, that is, pure thinking), which means that the Book of Songs retains the simple people's feelings of the previous generation, which can naturally impress people and has the power of education.

The Value of The Book of Songs

The essence of The Book of Songs is mainly in the national style, and most of them are folk songs, which are full of ideological significance and artistic value. The Book of Songs is regarded as a mirror that profoundly reflects the society of the Zhou Dynasty with its rich and broad themes and true and simple thoughts and feelings. It not only created the fine tradition of realism in China's ancient poetry, but also played a pioneering role in the formation of the national characteristics of China's classical poetry in terms of expression, chapter rhythm and language skills.

Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and other countries introduced the Chinese version of The Book of Songs very early. Since18th century, there have been French, English and German translations of The Book of Songs.