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 banquets and exchanges between nobles, and resentment of 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.
Appreciate:
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 birth of The Book of Songs (including its generation, collection and compilation) first created a new style in the history of China's poetry-four-character style.
Before the Book of Songs, although poetry was born, it did not have its own fixed style, and it was still in oral form, generally dominated by two words; It was in The Book of Songs era that China's poetry really laid its own creative pattern and formed a relatively stable style. That is to say, the real start of China's poetry began in The Book of Songs era.