The poem used for ancestral temple sacrifices in the "Book of Songs" is called: Ode.
1. Introduction to Ode
Ode is a dance song performed in ancestral temples, and its content is mostly about praising the achievements of ancestors. The "Song" poems are divided into 31 "Zhou Songs", 4 "Lu Songs", 5 "Shang Songs", and 40 *** poems.
The "Song" poems are divided into 31 "Zhou Songs", 4 "Lu Songs", 5 "Shang Songs", and 40 *** poems. All are works by aristocratic literati. From a time point of view, most of "Zhou Song" and "Daya" were produced in the early Western Zhou Dynasty; a small part of "Daya" and most of "Xiaoya" were produced in the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the time of the eastward migration.
2. Introduction to "The Book of Songs"
The "Book of Songs" is China's earliest poetry collection. It collects 305 poems from about 500 years from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. In the pre-Qin Dynasty, it was called "Poetry", or the whole number was called "Poetry Three Hundred". 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.
As for the compilation of "The Book of Songs", there are two theories in the Han Dynasty: ① Pedestrians collected poems. "Hanshu·Yiwenzhi" records: "In ancient times, there were officials who collected poems. The king observed the customs, knew the gains and losses, and examined the correctness by himself."
The rhyme system and rules of rhyme usage in 305 chapters of "The Book of Songs" The form of poetry is basically the same, but it covers a long time and a wide area. In ancient times, when transportation was inconvenient and the languages ??were different, it would be impossible to produce such a collection of poetry without purposeful collection and sorting. imaginary. Therefore, the theory of collecting poems is credible.