The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poetry. It is the earliest collection of poems, including ***3 1 1 century to the 6th century. Among them, there are six Sheng poems with titles but no content, which are called Six Sheng poems, namely, Nan Chang, Bai Hua, Shu Hua, Yougeng, Chongqiu and Youyi, reflecting the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the weekend.
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, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which has been in use ever since.
Content classification
1, "wind" comes from folk songs all over the country and is the essence of the Book of Songs. There are beautiful things such as love and labor, as well as grievances and anger of homesickness, longing for the people, and anti-oppression and anti-bullying. They are often recited repeatedly, and each chapter in a poem is often only a few words different, which shows the characteristics of folk songs.
2. "Elegance" can be divided into "Elegance" and "Xiaoya", and most of them are poems that offer sacrifices to nobles, pray for a bumper harvest and praise Zude. The author of Daya is an aristocratic scholar, but he is dissatisfied with the real politics. Besides banquet songs, sacrificial songs and epics, he also wrote some satirical poems reflecting people's wishes, as well as some Xiaoya folk songs.
3. Ode is a poem dedicated to the ancestral temple, and the poems in Ya and Ode are of great value to the investigation of early history, religion and society.
Baidu Encyclopedia-The Book of Songs