The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, with a revenue of about 500 years from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the sixth century), and it is also one of the "six great arts" of Confucianism. The Book of Songs was written in the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, originally named "Poetry". It is said that it was compiled by Confucius, with 305 articles.
Since the Han Dynasty, Confucian scholars have regarded the Book of Songs as a classic and listed it in the Five Classics. Its original literary nature has become a textbook closely related to politics and morality, also known as "poetry teaching". Mao Heng in Han Dynasty annotated The Book of Songs, so it was also called Mao Shi.
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The Book of Songs as a whole is an image reflection of China's social life during the 500-year rise and fall of the Zhou Dynasty, including the ancestor's entrepreneurial ode and the movement of offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods; There are also banquet exchanges between nobles and resentment against uneven work and rest; There are also touching chapters reflecting labor, hunting and a lot of love, marriage and social customs.
According to the characteristics of music, it can be divided into three categories: wind, elegance and praise. The Wind has fifteen national styles, which are similar to folk songs. Elegance and Xiaoya, including political poems, epics and satires; "Ode" is divided into Zhou Song, Truffle and Shang Ode, which is a temple fair movement and is used for offering sacrifices to ancestral temples. The form is mainly four words, and there are also various sentences with different lengths. ?
According to the Analects of Confucius, Confucius taught everyone that learning poetry should know more about plants, animals and birds, which is the daily function of poetry; He also said that if you learn poetry, you can't use it correctly when performing tasks, which is tantamount to learning in vain. This is also the political function of poetry, which shows the importance of poetry in ancient life.