The Book of Songs is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry and the earliest collection of poems. It collects poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (pre-1 1 century to the 6th century), **3 1 1 poems, of which 6 poems are Sheng poems, that is, they have only titles but no contents, and are called Sheng.
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. In the pre-Qin period, the Book of Songs was called "The Book of Songs", or it was called "The Book of Songs 300" by integers. 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.
"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 music song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and aristocratic ancestral temples, which is divided into, and Shang songs.
Emotions expressed in The Book of Songs;
The Book of Songs pays attention to reality and expresses the true feelings caused by real life. This creative attitude makes it have a strong and profound artistic charm, which is the first milestone of China's realistic literature. National ethos is the source of China's realistic poetry. In July, we can see the life of slaves in tears, and in Getan, we can realize the awakening of the class consciousness of the exploited.
Disgruntled slaves boldly put forward a just question to the ruling class who got something for nothing: "If you get something for nothing, you will get 300 grains." If you don't raise or hunt, is there a county badger in Huzhan Pavilion? "Some poems also describe the workers' direct struggle with the ruling class in order to obtain the right to life. In this regard, Shuo has a shocking power.
The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.