The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, with 365,438+065,438+0 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, also known as "300 poems". The pre-Qin dynasty was called "Poetry", or the integer was called "Poetry 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.
The Book of Songs is the first collection of realistic poems in China, with a total of 305 poems, so it is also called "Three Hundred Poems". According to the use and music, it can be divided into three parts: wind, elegance and ode, in which wind refers to folk songs from all over the country, elegance is court music, and ode is dance music used by Zhou Tianzi and princes to sacrifice ancestral temples. The Book of Songs is mainly characterized by Fu, Bi and Xing. Among them, Qi is called Fu; The metaphor is called ratio; Let's talk about something else first to arouse what we are singing.
There are ***305 poems in The Book of Songs (there are also 6 poems with topics and no content, that is, no words, which are called sheng poems).