The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poetry. It is the earliest collection of poems, including 365,438+065,438+0 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. (Six of them are poems, that is, there are only titles and no content. ), also known as "Three Hundred Poems", reflects the social outlook of about 500 years from the early Zhou Dynasty to the late Zhou Dynasty. The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot be verified. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode.
"Wind" is a ballad of Zhou Dynasty. Elegant music is the official music of Zhou people, which is divided into harmony and elegance. Ode is a musical song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and noble ancestral temples, which is divided into ode to, and ode to Shang. There is a saying that three praises are not as good as two elegance, and two elegance is not as good as the wind of fifteen countries. Therefore, from the literary value of The Book of Songs, wind is considered to be the best length, and later it is called coquettish two-body with Li Sao.
The Songs of Chu
Chu Ci is a new poetic style created by Qu Yuan and the first collection of romantic poems in the history of China literature. Because Qu Yuan is also called the first romantic poet in China. The name of "Songs of the South" existed in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty and was compiled by Liu Xiangnai. The whole book is mainly composed of Qu Yuan's works, and later there are Song Yu and others, but other articles are also in the form of Qu Fu. Its poetic style, written in Chu dialect, has a far-reaching influence on later poems. Songs of the South is of extraordinary significance to the whole cultural system of China, especially to literature. It created the poetic style of China's romantic literature, so later generations called this style "Chu Ci" and "Sao".
yuefu folk songs
China formally established Yuefu in the Han Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and its task was to collect and sort out local folk music, arrange, adapt and create music, and perform singing and performances. Yuefu was originally a music institution established by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It is used to train musicians, make music scores and collect lyrics, among which a large number of folk songs are collected. Later Yuefu became a poem with music. Fifty or sixty folk songs of Han Yuefu preserved today truly reflect the miserable life of the lower classes. The famous masterpiece Peacock Flying Southeast is the most famous masterpiece among the folk songs of Han Yuefu.
Tang poetry
Tang poetry generally refers to poems written by poets in the Tang Dynasty. Tang poetry is one of the precious cultural heritages of the Chinese nation and a pearl in the treasure house of Chinese culture. At the same time, it has had a great influence on the cultural development of many nationalities and countries in the world, and has important reference significance and value for future generations to study the politics, people's feelings, customs and culture of the Tang Dynasty. Yang Jiong, Lu, and were four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty. Among them, the greatest achievement is that he wrote the famous "Farewell to Vice Governor Du to Shu", which is as famous as Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi.
Song ci
Song Ci is a popular literary genre in China in the Song Dynasty, and it is a new style poem compared with classical poetry, which marks the highest achievement of Song literature. Song ci has long and short sentences, which are easy to sing. Because it is the lyrics of music and harmony, it is also called tune, Yuefu, music movement, long and short sentences, poetry, piano music and so on. The representative figures of Song Ci mainly include Su Shi, Xin Qiji (the representative poets of the bold school), Liu Yong and Li Qingzhao (the representative poets of the graceful school).