It is said that all the poems in The Book of Songs are lyrics that can be sung at that time. According to the nature of music, it can be divided into wind, elegance and praise. The "Wind" is composed of Nan Zhou, Zhao Nan, Gao Feng, Yong Yufeng, Feng Wei, Feng Wang, Qifeng, Wei Feng, tang style, Qin Feng, Martin, Guifeng, Cao Feng and Zhuifeng, and is called the Fifteen-Country Wind. Most of them are folk songs in the Yellow River valley, and a few are works processed by nobles. "Elegance" includes Xiaoya and Daya, *** 105.
Ya is basically a noble work, and only a part of Xiaoya comes from the folk. Ode includes Zhou Song, Truffle and Shang Ode, with a total of 40 articles. Ode is a lyric used in court sacrifice. Generally speaking, folk songs are lively and lively, and the poems of court nobles are dwarfed by them, and there is not much poetry.
The Book of Songs is the source of China's poetry and the glorious starting point of China's poetry history. It has many forms: epic, satirical poem, narrative poem, love song, war song, carol, holiday song and labor ballad. Rich in content, it reflects all aspects of social life in the Zhou Dynasty, such as 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 can be said that The Book of Songs is a mirror of Zhou society. The language of The Book of Songs is the most important material to study the general situation of Chinese from the 6th century BC to the 6th century BC.