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 (pre-1 1 century to the 6th century), **3 1 1 poems, of which 6 poems are Sheng poems, that is, they have only titles but no contents, and are called Sheng. ?
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. In the pre-Qin period, the Book of Songs was called "The Book of Songs", or it was called "The Book of Songs 300" by integers. 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 main contents of the book of songs
The main contents in The Book of Songs are divided into three parts, namely "wind", "elegance" and "ode". Subdivision of "wind" refers to folk songs around the Zhou Dynasty; "Elegance" refers to the sincere and elegant music of the people of Zhou Dynasty, and "Elegance" is divided into "Elegance" and "Elegance"; "Ode" refers to the music songs sacrificed by Wang Ting and noble ancestral halls in Zhou Dynasty, which can be divided into "Zhou Song", "Truffle" and "Shang Song".