The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems and the beginning of China's ancient poems. Collected 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), with a total of * * * 31/,among which 6 poems are full, that is, there are only titles but no contents, which is called full poems.
The Book of Songs fully shows the social life of China in the Zhou Dynasty, and truly reflects the historical features of the slave society in China from prosperity to decline. Some of these poems, such as, Gong Liu, Mian, Huang Yi, Daming, etc. In Daya, the origin, development and establishment of Zhou tribes from the birth to the demise of Hou Ji were recorded.
There are two views on the creation of the book of songs with expanded information:
1. Pedestrians say that the rhyme system, rhyme rules and poetic style of 305 articles in The Book of Songs are basically the same, but they cover a long time and a wide area. In the case of inconvenient transportation and different languages in ancient times, it is unthinkable to produce such a collection of poems without purposeful collection and arrangement. So the poetry anthology is credible.
2. Confucius said that Confucius in the Tang Dynasty, Zhu in the Song Dynasty, Zhu Yizun in the Ming Dynasty and Wei Yuan in the Qing Dynasty were all skeptical. The Book of Songs was written in the 6th century BC, before Confucius was born. In 544 BC, Ji Zha, the son of Wu, went to the State of Lu to watch music. The preface of the wind music poems played by Lu was basically the same as that of the Book of Songs today, indicating that there were poems at that time, while Confucius was only 8 years old.
Therefore, modern scholars generally believe that the theory of deleting poems is not credible. But according to what Confucius said in The Analects of Confucius: "I will go back to Shandong and be happy, elegant and eulogized where I belong." It can be seen that Confucius really likes this poem. It was only at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period that new voices rose and ancient music was lost. Only songs and poems in "Poems 300" were handed down and became the collection of poems seen today.
Baidu Encyclopedia-The Book of Songs