1, "Feng" is a folk song all over the world and the essence of the Book of Songs. Its themes include singing beautiful things such as love and labor, complaining and angry about homesickness, thinking about people, and opposing oppression and bullying.
2. Elegance and vulgarity are divided into elegance and vulgarity and Xiaoya, and their themes are mostly poems about noble sacrifice, praying for a good harvest and praising ancestors. The author of Daya is an aristocratic scholar, but he is dissatisfied with the real politics. In addition to banquet songs, sacrificial songs and epics, he also wrote some satirical poems with the theme of reflecting people's wishes. Xiaoya also has some folk songs.
3. Ode is a poem with the theme of offering sacrifices to ancestral temple. The poems in Ya and Ode are of great value to the study of early history, religion and society.
The Book of Songs is a collection of poems produced at the end of slave society in China. It is the beginning of China's ancient poetry and the earliest collection of poems. We collected 305 ancient poems from 1 1 century BC to the 6th century BC. In addition, there are six poems with titles and no content, which are called sheng poems. No content is Nanchang, Bai Hua, Shu Hua, Youkang, Chongwu and You Yi. It reflects the social outlook of about 500 years 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". By the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic before it was 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.
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.