The Book of Songs is divided into three parts, among which folk songs are mainly preserved?

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China. The pre-Qin period was called "The Book of Songs", also known as "Three Hundred Poems" or "Three Hundred Poems". It collected about 305 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. 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. The main methods of expression are fu, bi and xing. "Fu" means layout (telling the truth), "Bi" means metaphor (comparing other things with this thing), and "Xing" means inspiration (saying other things first to arouse the recited words). Folk songs have the highest ideological value and artistic value in The Book of Songs. "Hungry people sing about their food, while laborers sing about their affairs", Cutting Tan and Storytelling are the representative works of "Feng". 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.