The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems, which collected poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period (pre-1century to the 6th century), including * * * 3 1 1 first, among which 6 poems are full of poems, that is, there are only titles but no contents.
The Book of Songs is the source of China's poetic realism. The Book of Songs is the glorious starting point of China's realistic literature. Because of its rich content and high ideological and artistic achievements, it occupies an important position in the cultural history of China and even the world. It initiated the excellent tradition of China's poetry and exerted an indelible influence on later literature.
The Book of Songs is based on real social life, and there are few supernatural myths. Sacrifice, feasting and farming described in it are the products of social economy and ritual culture in Zhou Dynasty. Other poems describe the current situation, the war corvee, marriage and love, and unfold the image picture of the political situation, social life, customs and people's feelings at that time.
The position and influence of The Book of Songs in the history of literature
1, which started the tradition of lyric poetry.
From the Book of Songs, it shows the national literature characteristics of China's lyric poems. Since then, China's poetry has advanced along the road of expressing feelings and aspirations opened up by The Book of Songs, and lyric poetry has become the main form of China's poetry.
2. Elegance and literary innovation
The enthusiasm for reality, strong political and moral consciousness and sincere and positive attitude towards life shown in The Book of Songs were summarized as "elegance" by later generations, which directly influenced the creation of later poets and became the basis of their literary innovation.
3. Bi Xing's example
Bi Xing provided a model for later writers in artistic expression. After the development of later generations, it has become a unique national cultural tradition of China's ancient poems and songs. The Book of Songs is only used as the beginning of poetry to coordinate rhyme and arouse artistic conception, which is still reflected in later poems. However, there are a lot of figurative interests, which are widely inherited by later poets. Bixing has become a fixed word, which is used to refer to the image thinking or artistic expression of poetry. It is of great significance for the development of China's poetry to create a vivid artistic image in The Book of Songs and form an artistic realm of scene blending. The use of Bi Xing has formed the artistic features of China's ancient poems, which are implicit and full of charm.