Wind, a folk song all over the country, is the essence of the Book of Songs. It sang beautiful things such as love and labor, and also sang regret and anger at homesickness and anti-oppression and anti-bullying. Often repeated chanting through repeated superposition. Each chapter in a poem is often only a few words different, which shows the characteristics of folk songs.
Ya is divided into Ya and Xiaoya, and most of them are poems that offer sacrifices to nobles, pray for a bumper harvest and praise their ancestors. The author of Daya is an aristocratic scholar, but he is dissatisfied with the real politics. In addition to banquet songs, sacrificial songs and epics, he also wrote some satirical poems reflecting people's wishes. Xiaoya also has some folk songs.
Ode is a poem dedicated to the ancestral temple. The poems in Ya and Ode are of great value to the study of early history, religion and society.
Among the above three parts, there are 40 songs of praise, 65,438+005 of elegance and the most wind, 65,438+060 of * * *, a total of 305 songs. The ancients took its integer and often said "poetry is 300".
The new interpretation of The Book of Songs was written by Wu, a professor of Chinese Department of Taiwan Province Provincial University, 60 years ago. He translated the main contents of The Book of Songs directly in the vernacular, and the annotations are simple and clear, so that you can see them at a glance. The translation is closer to the charm of the original, which makes the Book of Songs interesting, lowers the reading threshold for readers, spreads the 2,500-year-old classic poems of China for us to learn, and increases our confidence.