The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, the beginning of China's ancient poems, and occupies an important position in the cultural history of China and even the world.
The Book of Songs contains 365,438+065,438+0 poems from the early years of the 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. 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 and was originally called The Book of Songs. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: 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 music song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and aristocratic ancestral temples, which is divided into, and Shang songs.