The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems. The earliest record is the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the latest work is the Spring and Autumn Period, which spans about five or six hundred years. The origin is centered on the Yellow River basin, south to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Hubei and other places.
It is said that there are as many as 3,000 poems handed down in the Spring and Autumn Period, and now there are only 3 1 1 poems left, of which six poems have no poems. After Confucius compiled The Book of Songs, Xia Zi, one of Confucius' ten philosophers and seventy-two sages, was the earliest recorded inheritor. He has the deepest understanding of poetry, so he passed it on.
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The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot be verified. They were collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius. In the pre-Qin period, the Book of Songs was called "The Book of Songs", or it was called "The Book of Songs 300" by integers. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic and was originally called The Book of Songs. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode.
"Wind" is a ballad in all parts of the Zhou Dynasty, and "Elegant Music" is the official elegant music of the Zhou people, which can be divided into "Xiaoya" and "Elegant Music", and "Ode" is a music song used in the ancestral temple of Zhou and nobles, and it can also be divided into "Zhou Song", "Truffle" and "Shangqu". The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.