The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems and the beginning of China's ancient poems. Collected poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), with ***3 1 1 first. Six of them are Sheng poems, with only titles but no contents, which are collectively called "Six Sheng Poems", that is, Nan Chang, Bai Hua, Shu Hua, You Geng, Chong Qiu and You Yi, 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. In the pre-Qin period, the Book of Songs was called "The Book of Songs", or it was called "The Book of Songs 300" by integers. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic. Originally called The Book of Songs, it has been used ever since. It is divided into three parts: wind, elegance and praise.
A Brief Introduction to The Book of Songs
1, "wind" comes from folk songs all over the country and is the essence of the Book of Songs. Praise love, labor and other beautiful things, but also homesickness, missing people, grievances and anger against oppression and bullying. Repeated chanting is often used, and each chapter in a poem is often only a few words different, which shows the characteristics of folk songs.
2. "Elegance" can be divided into "Elegance" and "Xiaoya", and most of them are poems that offer sacrifices to nobles, pray for a bumper harvest and praise Zude. The author of Daya is an aristocratic scholar, but he is dissatisfied with the real politics. Besides banquet songs, sacrificial songs and epics, he also wrote some satirical poems reflecting people's wishes, as well as some Xiaoya folk songs.
3. Ode is a poem dedicated to the ancestral temple, and the poems in Ya and Ode are of great value to the investigation of early history, religion and society.