The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of ancient Chinese poems, which collected poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), including ***3 1 1 first.
The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode. "Wind" is a ballad of Zhou Dynasty. Elegant music is the official music of Zhou people, which is divided into harmony and elegance. Ode is a musical song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and noble ancestral temples, which is divided into ode to, and ode to Shang.
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Xiaoya, a part of The Book of Songs, is a poem written by China in the pre-Qin period, with 74 poems in total. His works were written from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, more than the periods of Li, Xuan and Zhou in Western Weekend.
Xiaoya not only describes the rich and colorful social life and special cultural form of the Zhou Dynasty, but also reveals the spiritual outlook and emotional world of the Zhou people. It is based on real social life, without falsehood and grotesque, and there are few supernatural myths. Sacrifice, feasting and farming are the products of social economy and ritual culture in Zhou Dynasty.
Other poems describe the current situation, war corvee, marriage and love. It can be said that The Book of Songs Xiaoya is the earliest poem full of realistic spirit in China, which laid the tradition of China's poetry facing reality directly.
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