According to the content, The Book of Songs can be divided into

The Book of Songs is divided into three categories: style, elegance and fu.

"Wind" contains folk songs from fifteen places, including Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong and other places, most of which are folk songs from the Yellow River valley. Most of the polished folk songs are called "The Wind of Fifteen Countries", 160, which is the core content of The Book of Songs.

Elegance has elegance and elegance, which is a music song near the capital of Zhou Dynasty. 105. There are 365,438+0 articles in Daya, which mainly praise the ancestors of Zhou royal family, even the achievements of King Wu and King Xuan. Some poems also reflect the tyranny and chaos of Li and You Wang, and their ruling crisis. There are 74 existing Xiaoya, which were written from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the late years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, mostly during the Li, Xuan and Zhou Dynasties of Western Weekend.

There are forty * * * poems in Ode, which are sacrificial poems in ancestral halls. The explanation of ode was first found in Preface to Poetry: "The eulogist was described as beautiful and virtuous, and he also told the gods about his success." Confucius said in Mao Shi Zheng Yi that the word "Rong" was omitted under "ode". Famous poems mainly include Qing Palace, Life of Wei Tian and Xixi.

The position of the book of songs

The Book of Songs laid the foundation for the language and form of poetry, established the principles of poetry creation and critical art, and laid the foundation for China's poetry artistic creation with the excellent cultural tradition of the Chinese nation. There are a few epic narratives, but mainly lyrical works. From the Book of Songs, it shows the national literature characteristics of China's lyric poems.

The enthusiasm of paying attention to reality, strong political and moral consciousness and sincere and positive attitude towards life shown in The Book of Songs were summarized as the spirit of elegance by later generations, which directly influenced the creation of later poets. The characteristics of poems written by Yuefu in Han Dynasty and the generous voice of Jian 'an poets are also the direct inheritance of this spirit. Later poets often advocate the spirit of elegance to carry out literary innovation.