The Book of Songs is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry and the earliest collection of poems. It collects 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), **3 1 1, among which 6 poems are flourishing.
That is, there are only titles, but no contents, which are called Sheng Liu (Nanchang, Yougeng, Chongqiu and Youyi), reflecting 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 was called poetry in the pre-Qin period, or it was called "Poetry 300" by its integer. 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.
Techniques are divided into Fu, Bi and Xing. "Wind" is a ballad of Zhou Dynasty. Elegance is the formal elegance 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.
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The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems. The earliest record is the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the latest work is the Spring and Autumn Period, which spans about five or six hundred years. The origin is centered on the Yellow River basin, south to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Hubei and other places.
According to literature and history experts' research, The Book of Songs was written after Zhou Wuwang destroyed the Shang Dynasty (BC 1066). The earliest era of Zhou Song came into being in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is the work of noble literati, mainly composed of ancestral temple songs and hymns to the gods, and also describes agricultural production. Daya is the product of the prosperous period of the Zhou Dynasty and the only remaining epic in ancient China.
There are different opinions about the creation time of Eighteen Poems of Elegance: Zheng Xuan thinks that Poems of King Wen are poems of the King of Wen and the King of Wu, and Eight Poems of The Early Republic of China to A Juan are poems of the Duke of Zhou and his reign. Zhu thought: "it's' elegance' ... this was decided when Duke Zhou made it." But they all think that "Chaya" is a poem in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty.