The Book of Songs is based on the real social life, without illusion and grotesque, and there are few supernatural myths. Sacrifice, feasting and farming described are the products of social economy and ritual culture in Zhou Dynasty. The description of the current situation, war corvee, marriage and love shows the political situation, social life, customs and people's feelings of the Zhou Dynasty.
1. Introduction to The Book of Songs:
The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poetry. It is the earliest collection of poems, including 365,438+065,438+0 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. Six of them are Sheng poems, that is, there are only titles but no contents, which are called Six Sheng Poems (Nan Chang, Hua Mi).
2. Features of The Book of Songs:
1) Simple sentences: The Book of Songs mainly expresses emotions with simple sentences in four or five words. The language is simple and natural, without complicated words and flowery words, but it can express profound feelings.
2) Rich in content: The Book of Songs reflects the social features of about 500 years from the early Zhou Dynasty to the late Zhou Dynasty, including politics, economy, culture, religion, customs, thoughts, etc., and also includes all aspects of life such as love, affection and friendship.
3) Sincere feelings: The emotional expression in The Book of Songs is very sincere, and the poet expresses his feelings about life with his own experiences and feelings, which has a strong human touch.
Classical poetry
1, wind:
Wind is a folk song in various places, which reflects the social life and people's thoughts and feelings at that time. Most of these folk songs use quatrains to describe love, marriage, life and other aspects, and most of them use parallel prose and phrases to express the poet's thinking and feelings about life and society.
2. Ya:
Elegance is an orthodox poem of the imperial court or nobility, expressing loyalty to the Zhou royal family and praising the system of rites and music. Elegant use of five-character sentence, the form is more rigorous than the wind. Elegance mainly includes feasting, sacrifice and politics. Elegance is characterized by solemnity, elegance and nobility.
3. Ode:
Ode is a sacred poem dedicated to ancestors or heaven and earth, which embodies the reverence for the gods and the belief in Zhou Wenhua. The content of ode mainly includes offering sacrifices to ancestors, praising ancestors and praying for a bumper harvest. The form of Fu is more solemn, and the characteristics of Fu are solemn, solemn, sacred and sublime.