The six songs of Sound (Nan Chang, You Kang, Wu Chong and You Yi) reflect the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the weekend. 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.
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.
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Some chapters in The Book of Songs, such as The Book of Songs, reflect the scene that slave owners and nobles drove slaves to engage in a large number of agricultural labor, which inevitably accelerated the rapid development of agricultural economy in the Zhou Dynasty.
Stalin once said in Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism: "Under the slavery system, the basic basis of production relations is that slave owners possess the means of production and production workers, and production workers are slaves that slave owners can buy and sell as livestock."
The productive labor of slaves promoted the agricultural development at that time in a certain sense, and also played a positive role in social development. The Book of Songs has experienced a historical span of more than five centuries.
The historical development of mankind entered the Zhou Dynasty from Shang Tang's conquest of Xia Dynasty, Pan Geng's migration to Yin Dynasty, Yin Ruins culture, Zhou people's acceptance of Yin Dynasty, conquest of Zhou Dynasty, and the rise of princes in Banke.
If analyzed only from the perspective of productivity, Zhou rulers attached great importance to agriculture. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, since the reign of the Emperor of Zhou, the system of sealing Hou and county doctors was implemented.
Many clan members, ministers in active service and feudal lords once enjoyed land, and most of the slaves used were Yin people and prisoners of war, thus accelerating the development of agriculture, which was also the initial stage of the transition from slave society to feudal society.
With the further expansion of the power of slave owners and vassals, Zhou Wuwang finally died, which led to rebellion. After three years of rebellion, the Zhou Dynasty was consolidated, and there was a "peaceful and prosperous time" of about 50 years, that is, "the rule of governance".
During the period of Zhou Muwang, King Zhou Li and Zhou Xuanwang, it gradually declined. After the "China riots", "Zhao Zhou * * * and" only lasted for about ten years. You Wang ascended the throne, the Western Zhou Dynasty perished, and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty began.
Zhou Pingwang ascended the throne in 770 BC, beginning in the Spring and Autumn Period. Throughout the historical development and evolution of this period, from "Pangu opened the world" to "Seven Heroes in the Warring States", China's myths and legends and historical facts are the most direct historical reasons for the emergence of The Book of Songs.
The Book of Songs is a Confucian classic, which was honored as one of the "Six Classics" by Confucianism during the Warring States Period. Judging from the historical background of the creation of The Book of Songs, at that time, that historical stage and that social background.
Naturally, it also reflected the social life and class contradictions in that period. The Book of Songs is the first and earliest collection of poems in the history of China.
Baidu Encyclopedia-The Book of Songs