The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poems, the earliest collection of poems.
We collected 311 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (from the 11th century to the 6th century), among which 6 poems are Sheng poems, that is, they have only titles and no content, and they are called six Sheng poems (Nan Chang, Bai Hua, Hua Shu, You Geng, Chong Qiu and You Yi). ? [1-2]?
The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them have been unable to 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 3" in whole numbers. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, and it was originally called The Book of Songs, which has been used ever since. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: Wind, Elegance and Ode. The technique is divided into Fu, Bi and Xing. "Wind" is a ballad from all over the Zhou Dynasty. Elegance is the formal music of Zhou people, and it is divided into Xiaoya and Daya. Ode is a musical song sacrificed by Zhou Wangting and the aristocratic ancestral temple, and it is divided into Zhou Song, Lu Song and Shang Song. The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and banquets, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of social life in the Zhou Dynasty.
source: Baidu encyclopedia