The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, which collected 3 1 1 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. 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 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.
It is the beginning of China's ancient poetry, the earliest collection of poems, which collected poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period (1 11poems, among which six poems are Sheng poems, that is, there are only titles but no contents, and they are called Six Sheng Poems (Nanling)
Brief introduction of The Book of Songs;
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 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.