I. Introduction
The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems, including 3 1 1 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, among which 6 poems are sheng poems, that is, they have only titles but no content, and are called sheng poems.
Including Nanchang, Bai Hua, Shu Hua, Yougeng, Chongqiu and Youyi, reflecting the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the weekend.
Second, the main content
1, wind
Wind includes 15 local folk songs, including Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei and Shandong. Most of them are folk songs in the Yellow River valley, which is the core content of The Book of Songs. "Wind" refers to the local wind and folk songs.
2. Elegant articles
Ya is a music song near the Zhou Dynasty, with 105 * * *, of which Daya Xiaoya * * has 3 1 song, among which Daya's works are mostly written in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and the authors are mostly nobles, calling them noble, elegant and upright.
There are 74 existing Xiaoya, which were written from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the late years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, mostly during the Li, Xuan and Zhou Dynasties of Western Weekend. Some of Xiaoya's poems are similar to the national style, the most prominent of which is about war and labor.
Step 3 chant poems
There are forty articles in Ode, in which the eulogists are described as beautiful and virtuous, and the vivid ones are successful. I like dancing, and I like fighting and stabbing.
That is to say, it shows the plot and action of Zhou Wenwang's military conquest in the form of dance, which proves that there are not only songs but also dances in ancestor worship, and singing and dancing can be said to be the characteristics of ancestral temple music and songs. Modern scholars also believe that Fu is the joy of offering sacrifices to ancestral temples, and some of it is dance music.
The lofty position and great influence of The Book of Songs
1, with high status
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, thus forming the national characteristics of China's poetry art. Based on social real life, it has no fantasy and grotesque, and there are few supernatural myths.
The narrative of the current situation, corvee, love and marriage shows the political situation, social life, customs and people's feelings of the Zhou Dynasty. This spiritual tradition of "hungry people sing about their food, and laborers sing about their affairs" has been inherited and carried forward by future generations.
2. Significant impact
The Book of Songs has set a precedent for later generations' poetry in terms of rhythm, especially in the rhyming form and voice of poetry, which provides a paradigm and model for later generations' poetry and has important value and significance in the history of poetry creation.
With simple, true and vivid language, it vividly depicts and shows the characteristics of things, people and society, artistically reproduces the essence of society, eulogizes the diligence and courage of ancient people, and leaves a three-dimensional and concrete historical picture for future generations.