The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot be verified. 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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Creation background
All the works in The Book of Songs were produced after Zhou Wuwang's commerce was destroyed. The earliest time of Ode to Zhou was a poem in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is the work of noble literati, mainly composed of songs about ancestral temples and gods and poems describing agricultural production. Truffles and Ode to Business were both produced after Shi Zhou moved eastward.
Daya is also a poem of the Western Zhou Dynasty. There are many songs about sacrificial ceremonies and banquets, as well as several stories about Shi Zhou's ancestors and martial arts. This is the only epic in ancient China. The author of Daya is also a noble scholar, but he is also dissatisfied with the real politics. In addition to banquet songs, sacrificial songs and epics, they also wrote some satirical poems reflecting people's wishes.
Xiaoya was born in the late Western Zhou Dynasty and moved eastward. Its content is partly the same as elegance, partly the same as national customs, and there are many good poems among them.
"National Style" is the oral creation of the people and the essence of The Book of Songs. Many chapters expose the oppression and exploitation of the people by the aristocratic ruling group, and also reflect people's labor production and love for life. Repeated chanting is often used, and each chapter in a poem is often only a few words different, which shows the characteristics of folk songs.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-The Book of Songs