Brief introduction of The Book of Songs;
The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poetry. This is the earliest collection of poems. Collected poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), * * * 31,among which 6 poems are Sheng poems, that is, they have only titles but no contents, and are called Six Sheng Poems (.
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.
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According to legend, there was an official who collected poems in the Zhou Dynasty. Every spring, he shakes Muduo and goes deep into the folk to collect folk songs. After sorting out the works that can reflect the people's joys and sorrows, he gave them to the Taishi (the official in charge of music) to compose music and sing them to the Zhou Emperor as a reference for administration. The works of these unknown folk authors occupy most of the space in The Book of Songs, such as The Wind of Fifteen Countries.
The works of aristocratic literati in Zhou Dynasty constitute another part of The Book of Songs. According to Shangshu, Zhou Gongdan wrote Fu Li Feng _. In a batch of bamboo slips of the Warring States Period (Tsinghua bamboo slips) in Tsinghua University in 2008, it was described that people celebrated their victory in drinking, during which they improvised a poem "Cricket", the content of which is closely related to the existing "Cricket" in The Book of Songs tang style.