The Book of Songs is divided into three parts, namely 160 poems, elegant poems (105 poems) and ode poems (40 poems). * * * 305 poems with incomes of more than 500 years from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. In addition, there are six poems with only titles and no content.
The Book of Songs is a collection of poems produced at the end of slave society in China. It is the beginning of China's ancient poetry and the earliest collection of poems. We collected 305 ancient poems from 1 1 century BC to the 6th century BC. In addition, there are six poems with titles and no content, which are called sheng poems. No content is Nanchang, Bai Hua, Shu Hua, Youkang, Chongwu and You Yi. It reflects the social outlook of about 500 years from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period.
The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting 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.