1. Ancestral Temple Sacrifice Songs and National Epics
1. Ancestral Temple Sacrifice Songs. Ancient my country paid special attention to sacrifices. The central content of the ancestral temple sacrificial songs preserved in the "Three Songs" and "Daya" is to praise the merits of ancestors and reigning kings or princes.
2. Ancient national epic. There are five poems in "Daya", "Shengmin", "Gongliu", "Mian", "Huangyi" and "Daming", which narrate the historical relics and legends from the birth of Houji, the founder of the Zhou Dynasty, to King Wu's destruction of the Shang Dynasty. Zhou national epic.
2. Farming poems
1. Farming prayer and sacrifice songs. Most of these poems such as "Chen Gong", "Gee Hee" and "Feng Nian" in "Song of Zhou" praise the vast fields, numerous farmers, spectacular labor scenes and abundant harvests.
2. Song of production and labor.
3. Yan Feast and Blessing Poems
The Yan Feast poems in the "Book of Songs", which mainly focus on the gathering of monarchs, ministers, relatives and friends, reflect more of the joy and harmony of the upper class society. The scene shows the strong patriarchal concept and the tenderness between relatives. There are also some poems in the "Book of Songs" that bless the nobles, wishing their descendants prosperity and good luck.
4. Poems of resentment. Complaint poems are poems that reflect the chaos and criticize the current ills, mainly in style poems and elegant poems
5. War corvee poems
1. Positive praise of war: in "The Book of Songs" Some of his war poems describe the martial arts of the emperor and princes from a positive perspective, and are full of high morale and optimism.
2. Tired of war and yearning for peace.
3. Resentment against the heavy labor and labor.
4. The lament of the missing woman: It expresses the pain caused by war, labor and labor from the perspective of missing the wife. The pain of separation and lovesickness between husband and wife.
6. Marriage and love poems. It occupies a large proportion in the Book of Songs. It is numerous in number and rich in content. It is the most exciting and moving chapter in the Book of Songs.
7. Other content, such as patriotism, thoughts about the motherland, etc.
In short, the Book of Songs, with its realistic spirit, most extensively reflected all aspects of social life at that time, and established the fine tradition of Chinese poetry facing reality and reflecting reality.