2. The Book of Songs contains 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 sheng poems, that is, they have only titles but no contents, and are called sheng six poems (Nanxun, Baihua and Huashu).
3. The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot be verified. Collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius.
4. The Book of Songs was called The Book of Songs in the pre-Qin period, or the whole number was called The Book of Songs 300; 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.
5. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: wind, elegance and ode. "Wind" is a ballad of Zhou Dynasty. "Ya" is the official music of Zhou people, which is divided into "? Xiaoya and? Elegance; Ode is a musical song used by Zhou and noble ancestral temples for sacrifice, which is divided into? Zhou Song? Truffles and truffles? Ode to Shang Dynasty.
6. Confucius once summarized the purpose of the Book of Songs as "innocence" and educated his disciples to read the Book of Songs as the standard for making a career. Among the pre-Qin philosophers, many people quoted the Book of Songs, such as Mencius, Xunzi and Mozi. Zhuangzi? Han Feizi and others often quote sentences in the Book of Songs to enhance their persuasiveness.