The earliest collection of poems, The Book of Songs, is the beginning of China's ancient poems, which collected poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century).
There are ***3 1 1 poems in The Book of Songs, among which 6 poems are Sheng poems, that is, they have only titles and no content, so they are called Liu Sheng poems, reflecting the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the weekend.
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Every era has its own unique way to read The Book of Songs. Every time I read it, I leave something of great value. Bringing the core things left by each era to the present is the educational content of The Book of Songs.
Huang Dehai, a famous scientist, interprets, discriminates and selects the words that have been studied in The Book of Songs for more than 2,000 years, explores the historical picture of the times produced by The Book of Songs, and interprets the poet's inner concern and pragmatic feelings of later generations.
It reveals why the sages of past dynasties did not treat the poems in the Book of Songs as general literature, but believed that the "small words and great righteousness" were regarded as classics.
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