Poems in The Book of Songs in Pre-Qin Poetry

The Book of Songs is a collection of poems before the 6th century BC. This is China's first collection of poems. 305 poems were collected from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period. Some of them are sacrificial songs and music songs preserved by the master of music, and the other part-which is also an increasingly important part-is folk songs collected and sorted out. These poems are composed of wind, elegance and ode. July accuses society of injustice.

"Cutting Sandalwood" exposes the unearned gains of the parasitic class.

Storytelling expresses hatred for exploiters and love for the hazy "promised land".

"June" shows the will to struggle for the reunification of the motherland.

"Picking the EU" shows loyalty to the motherland in a difficult environment.

"No Clothes" shows the fighting spirit of sharing weal and woe.

Guan Ju shows the passionate pursuit of young men and women.

The Quiet Girl shows sincere and passionate love.

Self-protection shows the sadness that women are abandoned by men.

The form of The Book of Songs is mainly four words. A poem is divided into several chapters, each chapter only changes a few rhymes, and each chapter has different rhymes. Repeat chapters and sentences, and sing again and again. The expressions in The Book of Songs are mainly "Fu", "Bi" and "Xing".

"Fu" is a description.

"Bi" is a metaphor.

"Xing" means saying one thing first to arouse what you want to say. For example, "Guan Guan dove is in Hezhou." The beautiful and virtuous woman is a good spouse of a gentleman. "The first two sentences are called" Xing ".

Before the Han Dynasty, The Book of Songs was only called "Poetry" or "Poetry 300". The word "Jing" was added by Han Confucianism. As Confucius said, "poetry is 300", in a word, innocent. "The poems in the Book of Songs are often quoted in Zuo Zhuan, and the words" poem cloud "are often used.