Wind, a folk song all over the country, is the essence of the Book of Songs. It sang beautiful things such as love and labor, and also sang regret and anger at homesickness and anti-oppression and anti-bullying. Often repeated chanting through repeated superposition. Each chapter in a poem is often only a few words different, which shows the characteristics of folk songs.
Elegance and vulgarity are divided into elegance and vulgarity and Xiaoya, and most of them are poems that offer sacrifices to noble people, pray for a good harvest and praise their ancestors. The author of Daya is an aristocratic scholar, but he is dissatisfied with the real politics. In addition to banquet songs, sacrificial songs and epics, he also wrote some satirical poems reflecting people's wishes. Xiaoya also has some folk songs.
Ode is a poem dedicated to the ancestral temple. The poems in Ya and Ode are of great value to the study of early history, religion and society. Among them, there are 40 essays, including Ya 105 essays (6 essays without poems, not counting), with the largest number, * * * 160 essays, totaling 305 essays. The ancients took its integer and often said "poetry is 300".
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The compilation of The Book of Songs in the Spring and Autumn Period was mainly for application:
First, as a teaching material for learning music and reciting poems.
Secondly, it is a ritual song of feasting and offering sacrifices.
Thirdly, it can be used as a tool to express one's feelings in diplomatic occasions or speech responses.
On the other hand, the social function of The Book of Songs is that the society (including scholar-officials and court rulers) uses it to publicize and practice self-cultivation in governing the country. This is one of the purposes of compiling the Book of Songs, and it is also the content that some scholars strongly advocated and promoted when the Book of Songs came into being.
Confucius' theory of "Xing, Guan, Qun and Resentment" clarified the social function of The Book of Songs, which not only pointed out the literary characteristics of The Book of Songs that infected people with images and aroused readers' imagination and association, but also conformed to social life and achieved practical results.
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