The Five Classics refers to the Book of Songs, Book of History, Book of Rites, Book of Changes, and Spring and Autumn Annals. It is called "Poetry, Book, Rites, Book of Changes, Spring and Autumn Period" for short. In fact, there should have been six classics and one "Yue Jing", collectively called "Poetry, Book, Rites, Music, Book of Changes, Spring and Autumn Period", but it was later destroyed by the Qin Dynasty. At the end of the war, only the Five Classics remained.
Among them, "The Book of Songs" is my country's first collection of poetry, which contains 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period over 500 years. The Book of Songs has three parts: Feng, Ya and Song. Among them, the style includes the fifteenth "national style", with 160 poems; the elegant style is divided into "Daya" and "Xiaoya", with 105 poems; the ode is divided into "Zhou Song", "Lu Song" and "Shang Song", with 105 poems. 40 articles.
The Book of Songs in the Five Classics.
The style of "The Book of Songs" is divided according to the different nature of music, and is divided into three categories: wind, elegance and song. ①Wind. It is local music from different regions, mostly folk songs. "Wind" poems are folk songs collected from 15 regions including Zhounan, Zhaonan, Bei, Yong, Wei, Wang, Zheng, Qi, Wei, Tang, Qin, Chen, Hui, Cao and Bin. ***160 articles. Most of them are folk songs.