Four-character poems are the basic genres in The Book of Songs, such as National Style, Xiaoya and Elegance.
There are also five sentences in the Book of Songs, such as "Calling the South to Expose": "Who said that sparrows have no horns, why did they wear my house? Who says women are homeless? Why are you going to jail? " ;
The six-character metrical poems in The Book of Songs are only scattered sentences, which are relatively rare, and there are no cases where more than two six-character metrical poems appear in succession, such as "people in the room make friends with me, people always make friends with me, and people always destroy me" (Beifengmen) and "I have no sleep at night" (Feng Wei
There are seven-character poems in the Book of Songs in the pre-Qin period, but there are many miscellaneous poems in the Book of Songs.
Classical poetry is a genre of poetry. It's also called antique. In terms of the number of words in poems, there are so-called four-character poems, five-character poems and seven-character poems. Four words are four words, five words are five words and seven words are seven words. After the Tang Dynasty, it became a modern poem, so it is usually divided into five words and seven words. Five-character ancient poems are referred to as five ancient poems for short; Seven-character ancient poems are referred to as seven ancient poems for short, and those who use three, five and seven characters at the same time are generally considered as seven ancient poems.
The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poems and the earliest collection of poems. There were 305 ancient poems from 1 1 century BC to the 6th century BC. In addition, there are six poems with no words, which are called acoustic poems (Nanchang, Youkang, Chongwu and Youyi), reflecting the social outlook from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period.
The author of The Book of Songs is unknown. It was collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius. At first, it was just called "Poetry" or "Poetry 300". In the Western Han Dynasty, it was regarded as a Confucian classic and called The Book of Songs. There are three kinds of editors in The Book of Songs: style, elegance and ode. "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 musical song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and noble ancestral temples, which is divided into ode to, and ode to Shang.
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. Later, The Book of Songs was regarded as a classic by Confucianism and became one of the Six Classics and Five Classics.