The five epics of Daya include Sheng Min, Gong Liu, Mian, Yi Di and Daming.
1. Described some historical sites and legends from the birth of Hou Ji, the ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty, to the destruction of Shang Dynasty by King Wu.
Second, selectively depict specific events, so as to praise the achievements of our ancestors and express Zhou Min's reverence and love for our ancestors.
Thirdly, the epics of the Zhou Dynasty also contain descriptions of ancestral myths, such as the birth of ancestor Hou Ji in Sheng Min.
Fourthly, summing up the historical lessons and putting forward the idea of governing the country, which is also the main content of Zhou people's epic.
Introduction:
Daya Sheng Min is a poem in The Book of Songs, the first collection of poems in ancient China, and also an epic of the Zhou Dynasty. This poem traces the deeds of Hou Ji, the ancestor of Zhou people, and mainly describes the magic of his birth and his special talent in agricultural planting. The content written has both historical factors and some mythological factors.
The poem consists of eight chapters, four chapters with ten sentences in each chapter and four chapters with eight sentences in each chapter. The content is coherent, the structure is rigorous, and it is purely expressive, vivid and documentary.