What does the theory of picking poems in The Book of Songs mean?

"Collecting poems" refers to a political system or cultural system in the Zhou Dynasty. Poetry-picking, as an important political and cultural activity in ancient China, had an important influence on politics at that time. With the changes of the times, the cultural meaning of this behavior is getting heavier and heavier, which plays an important role in the later cultural development.

Poetry-picking is generally called poetry-picking in the Zhou Dynasty, and it is an important system in the Western Zhou Dynasty in the pre-Qin period. The rulers of the Zhou Dynasty attached great importance to people's feelings, and thought that poetry could truly reflect the social, political and moral conditions, so that people could observe the gains and losses of politics and the rise and fall of customs and achieve the purpose of "stabbing politics".

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According to the contents of the Book of Songs, we can see that there are some Taishi who kept the music chapter in the Zhou Dynasty, and he preserved aristocratic banquets and sacrificial songs; Some of them are oral poems collected from the people.

According to books such as Mandarin, Book of Rites, Han Shu and Biography of He Xiu Ram, it is said that in the Zhou Dynasty, there was a special official in the vegetable market, whose official name was "Pedestrian" or "Qiu Ren", who went to collect poems among the people. After collecting them, he gave them to the Taishi, who mixed the poems and songs together and reported them to the emperor. "