1, The Book of Songs is China's first poetry collection. It first spread in the Spring and Autumn Period.
2. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: wind, elegance and ode.
"Wind" is a ballad of Zhou Dynasty.
Elegant music is the official music of Zhou people, which is divided into harmony and elegance.
Ode is a musical song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and noble ancestral temples, which is divided into ode to, and ode to Shang.
3. The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting all aspects of labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.
4. The Book of Songs is such a great book, which opened the paradigm of China's excellent traditional literature. Good poetry, even good literature, is ultimately related to time.
5. Confucius chose The Book of Songs. He chose the most representative poem among many folk poems, and put the poem describing the love between men and women in the world in the first place. The joy of life and the suffering of the people, the Book of Songs is full of vivid life scenes.