The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, including 305 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, which are divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode. The realistic spirit of The Book of Songs, especially the folk song "Hungry people sing about their food, and laborers sing about their affairs", has the greatest influence on later literature.
It urges poets and writers to care about the fate of the country and the suffering of the people, and not to regard literature as something to linger and entertain. Folk songs of past dynasties are its direct biography, and this spirit has been deeply reflected from Han and Wei Yuefu to modern folk songs. Progressive literati in past dynasties advocated "Bi Xing" and "Elegant Style" in their creation, which in essence advocated the realistic spirit of The Book of Songs.
The Book of Songs is the glorious starting point of China literature, and its appearance and ideological and artistic achievements are the symbols of the development of China literature, which occupies a very high position in the cultural history of China and even the world.
Introduction to The Book of Songs;
The Book of Songs as a whole is an image reflection of China's social life during the 500-year rise and fall of the Zhou Dynasty, including the ancestor's entrepreneurial ode and the movement of offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods; There are also banquet exchanges between nobles and resentment against uneven work and rest; There are also touching chapters reflecting labor, hunting and a lot of love, marriage and social customs.
There are 305 existing poems in The Book of Songs (except 6 Kubinashi orders, ***3 1 1), which are divided into three parts: abundance, elegance and fu.
"Wind" comes from folk songs all over the country and is the essence of The Book of Songs. There are beautiful things such as love and labor, as well as grievances and anger of homesickness, longing for the people, and anti-oppression and anti-bullying. They are often recited repeatedly, and each chapter in a poem is often only a few words different, which shows the characteristics of folk songs.
Ya is divided into Ya and Xiaoya, and most of them are poems that offer sacrifices to nobles, pray for a bumper harvest and praise their ancestors. The author of Daya is an aristocratic scholar, but he is dissatisfied with the real politics. In addition to banquet songs, sacrificial songs and epics, he also wrote some satirical poems reflecting people's wishes. Xiaoya also has some folk songs.
Ode is a poem dedicated to the ancestral temple. The poems in Ya and Ode are of great value to the study of early history, religion and society.
In the above three parts, 40 articles were assigned, including Ya 105 (6 articles without poems, not counting), with the largest number, * * * 160, totaling 305 articles. The ancients took its integer and often said "poetry is 300".