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. ?
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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 (pre-1 1 century to the 6th century), with a total of * * * 31/,among which 6 poems are full, that is, there are only titles but no contents, which is called full poems.
The Book of Songs was written in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. Originally called The Book of Songs. Confucius mentioned this name many times, such as: "The Book of Songs is 300. In a word, it says' thinking without evil' ".
"Reciting 300 Poems, teaching them as politics, is unattainable; Make it all-round, not exclusive.
Although a lot, but also xi thought? Sima Qian also recorded this name, such as: 300 poems, which were generally done by sages in a rage.
"Because there are 3 1 1 songs recorded in the later versions handed down from generation to generation, it is called" Poetry 300 "for the convenience of narration.
It was renamed The Book of Songs because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took The Book of Songs, Li, Yi and Chunqiu as five classics.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-The Book of Songs