The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poems and the earliest collection of poems. Collected 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), with a total of * * * 31/,among which 6 poems are Sheng poems, that is, there are only titles but no contents, which are called Sheng poems. It reflects the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the end of the Zhou Dynasty.
The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot 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 300" by integers. 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. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, 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.
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.
The characteristics of four-character poems:
1, the language is concise, simple and natural. Four-character poems usually express thoughts and feelings in concise language, without too many flowery rhetoric and rhetorical devices, which are simple and natural and can leave a deep impression on people.
2, the rhythm is bright and the sense of rhythm is strong. The sentences of four-character poems are short and pithy, usually in the form of four-character lattice, with strong sense of rhythm, catchy reading and musical beauty.
3. Express your thoughts directly and forcefully. Four-character poems express thoughts and feelings in short sentences, which are concise and clear, can directly convey the author's feelings and thoughts, and have strong expressive force and appeal.
4. The subject matter is extensive and rich in content. Four-character poems can cover a variety of themes and contents, from describing natural scenery and characters to expressing emotions and thoughts, with a wide range of expressive force.