The Book of Songs is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry and the earliest collection of poems. It collects poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), **3 1 1, among which 6 poems are flourishing.
That is, there are only titles, but no contents, which are called Sheng Liu (Nanchang, Yougeng, Chongqiu and Youyi), reflecting the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the weekend.
The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot be verified. They were collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius. In the pre-Qin period, the Book of Songs was called "The Book of Songs", or it was called "The Book of Songs 300" by integers. 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.
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As an important turning point in the study history of The Book of Songs, the study of The Book of Songs in the first half of the 20th century was different from that before and after.
The 1920s and 1930s was a special historical period, with social transformation, cultural replacement and academic turning point. Everything is in a state of mixing the old and the new.
As early as the period of the old democratic revolution before the May 4th Movement, the democratic revolutionaries represented by Lu Xun studied the Book of Songs with revolutionary democratic ideas.
In the research field of The Book of Songs, there are not only traditional scholars such as Zhang Taiyan, Wu Kaisheng and Lin Yiguang, but also modern scholars with high comprehensive quality such as Hu Shi and Wen Yiduo.
Judging from the research results, under the control of Confucian classics, traditional scholars continued their traditional research on annotation and sparse, and achieved certain results, represented by Wu Kaisheng's Poetry and Lin Yiguang's interpretation of The Book of Songs.
Although it is a continuation of Confucian classics, there are quite a few enlightened actions, which coincide with the research principles of the modern Book of Songs and are a manifestation of the research situation of old and new hybrids.
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