The Historical Position of The Book of Songs

This is China's earliest collection of poems. The Book of Songs has a lofty position and far-reaching influence in the history of China literature, which has laid a fine tradition of China's poetry and thus formed the national characteristics of China's poetry art.

The Book of Songs, as an expanded material, is the beginning of China's ancient poems and the earliest collection of poems. It collects poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), including ***3 1 1 poems. Sheng poetry, that is, only the title, no content, is called Liu Sheng poetry (Nanxun,? Baihua, Huashu, Youkang, Chongwu, Friendship) reflects the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the week to the weekend.

The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot be verified. 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, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which has been in use ever since. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode. "Wind" is a ballad of Zhou Dynasty. "Ya" is the official music of Zhou people, which is divided into "? Xiaoya and? Elegance; Ode is a musical song used by Zhou and noble ancestral temples for sacrifice, which is divided into? Zhou Song? Truffles and truffles? Ode to Shang Dynasty.

Confucius once summarized the purpose of the Book of Songs as "innocence" and educated his disciples to read the Book of Songs as their standard of speech and action. Among the pre-Qin philosophers, many people quoted the Book of Songs, such as Mencius, Xunzi and Mozi. Zhuangzi? Han Feizi and others often quote sentences in the Book of Songs to enhance their persuasiveness.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-The Book of Songs