The Book of Songs
The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poetry. It is the earliest collection of poems, collecting poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), with ***3 1 1 poems, including 6 poems.
That is, there are only titles, but no contents, which are called Sheng Liu (Nanchang, Yougeng, Chongqiu and Youyi), reflecting the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the weekend.
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. "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.
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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.
Confucius once summarized the purpose of the Book of Songs as "innocence" and educated his disciples to read the Book of Songs as their standard of speech and action. Among the pre-Qin philosophers, many people quoted The Book of Songs, such as Mencius, Xunzi, Mozi, Zhuangzi and Han Feizi. Quote the sentences in the Book of Songs to enhance your persuasiveness.
By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, The Book of Songs was regarded as a classic by Confucianism and became one of the six classics and five classics. The Book of Songs is the starting point of China's realistic literature and plays an important role in the formation of China's literary tradition and national characteristics. The English translation of The Book of Songs has made great contributions to the internationalization of China literature and China culture.