In the Book of Songs, it is the national style that describes local customs. The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, which occupies an important position in the cultural history of China and even the world. The Book of Songs contains 365,438+065,438+0 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, which are divided into three parts: style, elegance and praise. It describes and reflects the reality, creating a fine tradition of realism in poetry creation, and the poetry creation of poets in past dynasties was influenced by the Book of Songs to varying degrees.
The Book of Songs as a whole is an image reflection of China's social life during the 500-year rise and fall of the Zhou Dynasty, including the ancestor's entrepreneurial ode and the movement of offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods; There are also banquet exchanges between nobles and resentment against uneven work and rest; There are also touching chapters reflecting labor, hunting and a lot of love, marriage and social customs.
There are 305 existing poems in The Book of Songs (except 6 Kubinashi orders, ***3 1 1), which are divided into three parts: abundance, elegance and fu.