Alias "Poetry 300"
Classification of style, elegance and praise
Historical position: China's oldest collection of poems.
brief introduction
The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poetry. It was originally called "Poetry" or "Poetry 300". It collected 305 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the sixth century), among which 6 poems were Sheng poems, that is, they only had titles but no contents, and were called Sheng.
content
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 and is known as the encyclopedia of life in ancient society.