Because the Book of Songs is a collection of folk songs from various princes, the dialects are used. Many of the so-called rare characters in the Book of Songs actually refer to common things. Later, when Chinese culture was unified again and language and culture were gradually unified, some characters were gradually abolished.
The Book of Songs is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry and the earliest poetry collection. It collects poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (11th century BC to 6th century BC), with 311 poems. , six of them are Sheng poems, that is, they only have titles and no content, and are called the six Sheng poems ("Nanmei", "Baihua", "Huashui", "Yougeng", "Chongqiu" and "Youyi"), which reflects the The social outlook of about five hundred years from the early Zhou Dynasty to the late Zhou Dynasty.
The author of "The Book of Songs" is unknown, and most of it cannot be verified. It is said that it was collected by Yin Jifu and compiled by Confucius. The Book of Songs was called "The Book of Songs" in the pre-Qin period, or the round number was called "The Three Hundred Songs". It was revered as a Confucian classic during the Western Han Dynasty and was first called the Book of Songs, which is still used today. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: "Wind", "Ya" and "Song". "Wind" is a ballad from various places in the Zhou Dynasty; "Ya" is a formal song of the Zhou people, and is divided into "Xiaoya" and "Daya"; "Song of Lu", "Song of Lu" and "Song of Shang".
Research findings
On February 3, 2019, the preliminary interpretation of the slips unearthed from the tomb of Liu He, the Marquis of Haihun, was completed. There are more than 1,200 bamboo slips in the Haihun edition of the Book of Songs. The content of the brief text is divided into chapters and poems. You can see "Three hundred and five chapters of "The Book of Songs"", "Chapter 丗 of "Ode", "Thirty-one chapters of "Daya"", "One hundred and sixty chapters of "Guo"" etc. Quantity of content.
It is worth noting that the total number of chapters in the Haihun simplified version of the "Book of Songs" is recorded as "Fan Qian Seventy-Six Chapters" (1076 chapters), which is quite different from the 1142 chapters in the modern version. The discovery of Haihun's simplified version of the Book of Songs not only provides the ancient version of the Book of Songs with the largest number of characters found today, but also provides the possible appearance of Lu Shi in the Han Dynasty.