What is the content in The Book of Songs?

The main contents of The Book of Songs:

1, agricultural poems, which reflect the agricultural production activities of the Zhou Dynasty, have high cognitive value. For example, the wind in July, the official work in Zhou Song, the hee hee in Zhou Song, the bumper harvest year in Zhou Song, the shoulder-carrying work in Zhou Song, the natural death in Zhou Song and so on.

2. Conscription poems, that is, poems reflecting corvee and military service. For example, Tang Wenzong's, Guangdong's, Gaofeng's, Junfeng's, Weibo's, Dongshan's, and Caiwei's.

3. Love poems, that is, many works about love, marriage, family life and women's fate. There are many such works in Feng's poems, accounting for about one third of Feng's poems.

The love poems in The Book of Songs vividly reflect all kinds of situations and specific contradictions in love relations from different angles, and reveal all kinds of subtle and complicated psychology in people's love life.

Many works reflect young men and women's desire and pursuit of love, such as Guan Ju, Han Guang, Zhuo, Qin Jian and so on. Other works describe the happiness of lovers' success and the sweetness of secret engagement, such as the butterfly, the fine girl at the peak, the mulberry bell in Zhu Feng and Zheng Deyou. Some works express the pain of lovelorn love and the dissatisfaction and resistance to those who interfere in love and marriage, such as Yan Feng Bai Zhou, Zheng Feng General Zhong Zi and Zheng Feng urchin. Others showed their undying love for life and death, such as "East Gate Out of Zheng Feng" and "Feng Wang Cart".

As for those works that directly reflect marriage and family life, although they are not as colorful as love poems, they also show more substantial content. There are two main aspects in this kind of works, some of which describe the deep affection between husband and wife and the beauty of family life, such as Zheng Feng's "Cockcrow", Zheng Feng's "Storm" and Qi Feng's "Cockcrow"; Others, such as Zheng, Feng, and Meng, are often called "Poems on Abandonment of Women".

4. Yan Yan's poems, also known as Yin Yan's poems or banquet poems. The gathering and feasting with relatives and friends as the main content is the embodiment of Zhou people's emphasis on ceremony, music, family and friendship, and is the product of Chinese national ceremony and music civilization. For example, Xiaoya Luming Literature, Xiaoya Long Beach, Xiaoya Logging, Xiaoya Bin's First Banquet, Daya Walking the Reed, etc.

5. Complaining poems, including those in folk songs, satirize the behavior of the ruling class with a spicy style, such as cutting tan, saying, and peaking Xintai. There are also some works of noble literati, which were produced in the late Western Zhou Dynasty and early Spring and Autumn Period. Most of them are works that are harmful to nature and to the point, such as Beishan in Xiaoya, Xiaoya at the turn of October, Xiaoya Dadong, Daya People's Old Age, Daya Ban, Daya Dang and so on.

6. Zhou epic mainly refers to the poems such as Sheng Min and Gongliu, which reflect the ancestral images of Zhou tribes and their migration, development and growth. It is a work describing the early history of a tribe in the Book of Songs. These epics vividly reflect the history of Zhou people's transition from barbarism to civilization (that is, class society). It reflects the history of Zhou Jianguo in People's Republic of China (PRC) and its early days. Together, it is a very complete epic about the history of the early Zhou Dynasty, with a particularly detailed record of the historical turning point of the early Zhou Dynasty, which has both literary value and documentary value.