The author of Picking Wei is anonymous. Judging from the content of Picking Wei, it should be a work for soldiers to defend their duties and return their labor. The author of the excerpts from The Book of Songs Picking Wei was anonymous in the pre-Qin period.
Xiaoya Caiwei is a poem in The Book of Songs, the first collection of poems in ancient China. This poem about guarding soldiers and returning home sings about the hard life and homesickness of soldiers who joined the army. The poem consists of six chapters and eight sentences in each chapter.
The poem is based on a garrisoning tone, and it is inspired by picking up Wei. The first five sections focus on the hardships of life, strong homesickness and the reasons for not being able to go home for a long time, from which it reveals that soldiers not only have the joy of defending the enemy, but also feel the pain of fighting, showing their desire for peace.
Controversy about the assembly of The Book of Songs:
1. Wang Guan's theory of picking poems
The earliest record appeared in Zuo Zhuan. "Kong Congzi's Hunting Tour" contains: "The ancient emperors ordered history to collect ballads to observe the folk customs."
In Hanshu Shihuozhi: "In the month of Meng Chun, people who live in groups will be scattered, and pedestrians will shake Mu Duo, leaning on the road to collect poems, offering a teacher who is better than his temperament to be heard by the Emperor. Therefore, the king knows the world without leaving the household. " The court of the Zhou Dynasty sent special envoys to collect folk songs all over the country during the slack season, which were collected and sorted out by the Zhou Dynasty historians for the purpose of understanding the people's feelings. Poetry collectors at that time were called "pedestrians" (see Zuo Zhuan).
Liu Xin's Book with Yang Xiong is also called: "Zhao Wen, an envoy of three generations, Zhou and Qin Xuan, patrolled the road in August, asking for language, nursery rhymes and songs."
2. Gong Qing offered poems.
At that time, the Emperor of Heaven ordered governors to offer poems in order to "test the beauty and evil of his vulgarity". "Mandarin Zhou Yu" contains: "The emperor listens to politics, so that the officials and ministers can offer poems, songs, lessons, fu and chanting to the disciples."
3. Confucius' theory of deleting poems
This statement can be found in Historical Records Confucius Family: "There are more than 3, ancient poems, and when it comes to Confucius, we can get rid of its weight and take 35 poems that can be applied to propriety and righteousness." It is said that there were 3, ancient poems, of which 3 were compiled by Confucius according to the standard of propriety and righteousness, and the Book of Songs was compiled. Kong Yingda in Tang Dynasty, Zhu Xi in Song Dynasty, Zhu Yizun in Ming Dynasty and Wei Yuan in Qing Dynasty were all skeptical.
It is recorded in Zuo Zhuan that Confucius had a stereotyped Book of Songs when he was less than 1 years old. In 544 BC, Lu Yuegong played wind poems for Ji Zha, the son of Wu, in the same order as the current Book of Songs. Confucius once said in The Analects of Confucius Zi Han: "I will return to Shandong in self-defense, and then I will be happy, elegant and eulogized." It can be seen that maybe Confucius was just having fun with the poem.
At present, it is generally believed that The Book of Songs was collected by various vassal states with the assistance of the Zhou court, and then compiled by historians and musicians. Confucius also participated in the process of sorting out.