Ancient ballads are the earliest literary style in China, and they are oral literature sung by our ancestors in productive labor. As the source of China's ancient poetry and realistic writing style, it truly reflected all kinds of labor and life of human beings at that time, laid a realistic foundation for China's later literary creation, and shined the history of China literature with incomparable brilliance.
The existing ancient ballads in China can be roughly divided into the following five categories in terms of subject matter and content:
The first is the labor ballad, which is the earliest ancient poem. Their repetition of labor behavior and summary of production experience were consciously created by our ancestors with obvious utilitarian purposes, with playing songs as the most typical example.
Secondly, the sacrificial ballads show ancient ancestors' fantasy of praying for God's blessing or ordering nature to obey themselves, and they have a strong primitive religious consciousness, among which 375 Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Yi Yi Wax Ci poems are their representatives.
The third is the totem ballad, which is a poem created by ancestors on the basis of totem worship, and its clue can be found in Swallow Fly.
The fourth kind is love songs, which generally show rough and savage characteristics, such as Zhouyi. Tuner 62.
Fifth, battle songs, such as Zhouyi? Zhongfu? 62 "and" Zhouyi ". Through his vivid description, Fan Ren seems to hear the sound of ancient wars, see the etiquette of ancient wars, see the figure of tribal members fighting bravely, and see the sadness of failure and the joy of victory.
Ancient ballads have four artistic features: one is a collective and comprehensive art form. Second, it reproduces the directness of life. Third, the sentence pattern is concise, the language is concise, and the rhythm is smooth. The fourth is the expression method based on fu.