What is the meaning of "wind" in The Book of Songs?

Feng is a Zhou Dynasty folk song included in The Book of Songs, the first collection of poems in the history of China literature. Including the folk songs of about fifteen vassal States from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. The folk songs of Zhou Dynasty with "national style" reflect the real life of working people with colorful pictures, express their unfair treatment in the situation of exploitation and oppression and their belief in striving for a better life, and are the source of realistic poetry in China.

"National Style" describes things with simple language and reflects social reality with simple life paintings, which has been well reflected in "National Style" and has become its remarkable artistic feature.

There are 15 groups of "national styles", which are divided into Nan Zhou, Zhao Nan, Changfeng, Changfeng, Fengwei, Feng Wang, Zhengfeng and Qifeng.

Guo Feng is generally regarded as the literary essence of The Book of Songs, and later generations call it coquettish with Qu Yuan's Li Sao. Stylistically, the national wind has a strong local color; From the content point of view, Guo Feng is mostly a folk song, and the author is mostly a folk singer except a few aristocrats.

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The composition of the authors of The Book of Songs is very complicated, and their geographical sources are also very extensive. In addition to the music songs produced by music officials in the Zhou Dynasty and presented by officials and scholars, there are many folk songs that were originally circulated among the people.

The classification of style, elegance and fu in The Book of Songs is based on the difference of music.

Its region, except Jiang, Han and Rushui, originated in the Yellow River Basin from Shaanxi to Shandong. Elegance is the joy of "Ji Wang", and Zhou people in this area call it "Xia". "Ya" and "Xia" were commonly used in ancient times. Elegance also means "positive". At that time, Ji Wang's music was regarded as a positive tone-a model music.

There are different opinions about the difference between "Elegance" and "Xiaoya", and their musical characteristics and applicable occasions are also different. Ode is a kind of music dedicated to offering sacrifices to ancestral temples.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Wind (Book of Songs)