"Ode to Ya" is mostly a work of the Western Zhou Dynasty, written by nobles, which embodies the dignity of "Elegant Music". "National Custom" is mostly works in the Spring and Autumn Period, mostly collected from the people, which more embodies the freedom and boldness of the new voice and is close to the spoken language at that time.
The best preserved folk songs in The Book of Songs are national customs.
In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic and was originally called The Book of Songs. 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 music song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and aristocratic ancestral temples, which is divided into, and Shang songs.
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. It describes and reflects the reality, creating a fine tradition of realism in poetry creation, and the poetry creation of poets in past dynasties was influenced by the Book of Songs to varying degrees.
Language style of The Book of Songs: The language form of The Book of Songs is vivid and colorful, which can often achieve "twice the result with half the effort" and "full of emotion". However, the language style and national style of Ya and Song are different. Most of the chapters in Ya and Song use a strict four-character case, with few miscellaneous words, while there are many miscellaneous words in the national style. In "Xiaoya" and "National Style", repeated chapters and sentences are often used, but they are rare in the aspect of appealing to both refined and popular tastes.
Many modal particles, such as, zhi, zhi, die, Hu, er, yi and ye, are used in national customs. These modal particles have also appeared in Ya and Ode, but they are not as numerous and varied as those in National Custom. The wonderful use of modal particles in national style has enhanced the vividness and vividness of poetry and reached a vivid situation.
The different linguistic features of elegance, praise and national style reflect the changes of the times and society, as well as the differences in the identity of the creative subject. "Ode to Ya" is mostly a work of the Western Zhou Dynasty, written by nobles, which embodies the dignity of "Elegant Music". "National Custom" is mostly works in the Spring and Autumn Period, mostly collected from the people, which more embodies the freedom and boldness of the new voice and is close to the spoken language at that time.