The Book of Songs
The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poetry. It is the earliest collection of poems, including 3 1 1 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, among which 6 poems are Sheng poems, that is, they have only titles and no content, and are collectively called six Sheng poems (Nan Chang, Bai Hua, Hua Tuo and You Geng).
The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot be verified. They were collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius. The Book of Songs was called poetry in the pre-Qin period, or it was called "Poetry 300" by its integer.
In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which has been in use ever since. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode. Techniques are divided into Fu, Bi and Xing.
The wind is a ballad in the Zhou Dynasty. Elegant music is the official music of Zhou people, which is divided into harmony and elegance. Ode is a music song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and aristocratic ancestral temples, which is divided into, and Shang songs.
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The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems. The earliest record is the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the latest work is the Spring and Autumn Period, which spans about five or six hundred years. The origin is centered on the Yellow River basin, south to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Hubei and other places.
According to literature and history experts' research, The Book of Songs was written after Zhou Wuwang destroyed the Shang Dynasty (BC 1066). "Song of Zhou" is the earliest work in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is the work of noble literati. It is mainly composed of ancestral temple music songs and ode to the gods, and some of them describe agricultural production.
On the whole, The Book of Songs is an image reflection of China's social life during the 500 years from prosperity to decline in 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.