Time of Works: The earliest works in The Book of Songs are probably works in the Western Zhou Dynasty. According to historical records, Fu Li Feng was written by Zhou Gongdan. In a batch of bamboo slips of the Warring States Period in Tsinghua University in 2008 (referred to as Tsinghua bamboo slips for short), it was described that Wu Wang and others celebrated their victory and drank alcohol after defeating Li Guo, and the impromptu poem "Cricket" had a very close relationship with the existing "Cricket" in The Book of Songs tang style. The latest work was written in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. According to Zheng Xuan's Preface to Poetry, it is Martin Zhu Lin, which spans about 500 years.
Genre of works: The Book of Songs contains 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period. The Book of Songs contains rhetorical devices such as style, elegance, praise, fu, comparison and xing, which are collectively called the six meanings of the Book of Songs. Style, elegance and praise are the genres of The Book of Songs and the main basis for the classification of its works. "Wind" means tone. Elegance is the joy of "Wang Ji" and is called "Xia" by Zhou people in this area. "Ya" and "Xia" were commonly used in ancient times. Elegance also means "positive". At that time, Ji Wang's music was regarded as a positive tone-a model music. "Ode" is a musical song and epic sacrificed in the ancestral temple, and its content is mostly to praise the achievements of ancestors. Fu, Bi and Xing are the expressions of The Book of Songs, which are now called rhetoric. Fu: Repeatedly expounded. Bobby: For example. Xing: Get up. "Fu" and "Bi" are the most basic means of expression in all poems, while "Xing" is the unique means in The Book of Songs and even China's poems. The original meaning of the word "Xing" is "Qi", so it is often called "Qi Xing", which plays a role in rendering atmosphere and creating artistic conception in poetry.
Author of The Book of Songs: Yin Jifu, the main collector of The Book of Songs, is a famous politician, strategist and writer in the history of China, and is regarded as the ancestor of China's poetry. Yin Jifu was born in Jiangyang (now Luzhou City), and was demoted to Fangling (formerly known as Fangxian County) in his later years, and was buried in Qingfeng Mountain in Fangxian County, Hubei Province. There are many Yin Jifu cultural relics in Fangxian County. Assisting three emperors, he went to Zhou Youwang to listen to rumors and was beheaded by Zhou Youwang. Later, I learned that it was a manslaughter and I was buried with a golden head. In order to prevent others from robbing tombs, he built twelve tombs in the east of Fangxian County. The author of The Book of Songs is not a single person, and it covers a wide area. In addition to the music songs produced by music officials in the Zhou Dynasty and presented by officials and scholars, there are many folk songs that were originally circulated among the people. There are different opinions about how these folk songs came to the court. Some scholars in the Han Dynasty believed that the Zhou Dynasty sent special poets to collect folk songs and understand the advantages and disadvantages of politics and customs. There is also a saying that these folk songs are collected by musicians all over the world. Musicians are officials and experts in charge of music. They compose poems as their profession and collect folk songs to enrich lyrics and tunes. The pleasure of princes is dedicated to the emperor, and these folk songs are gathered in the court. These statements all have some truth.