The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, which collected poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century). In content, it is divided into three parts: style, elegance and fu (six of them are poems of prosperity, that is, only titles, no content), reflecting the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of Zhou Dynasty to the weekend.
In the pre-Qin period, the Book of Songs was called "The Book of Songs", or it was called "The Book of Songs 300" by integers. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which has been in use ever since.
The Book of Songs Wind is a ballad of the Zhou Dynasty. Elegant music is the official music of Zhou people, which is divided into harmony and elegance. Ode is a music song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and aristocratic ancestral temples, which is divided into, and Shang songs. The Book of Songs is a treasure of China culture.
The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting 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 is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.
Creative background:
Joo Won?, the birthplace of the Zhou Dynasty, was suitable for agriculture. Elegant poems such as People's Life, Gongliu and Mianmian Gua all show that Zhou prospered by agriculture, and the development of agriculture promoted social progress. Zhou became the master of the world after the conquest, and the patriarchal clan system, land, slave private ownership and the rule of aristocratic lords became the social and political characteristics of this historical period.
Apart from the tyranny of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the replacement of Shang and Zhou Dynasties by Western Zhou Dynasty was mainly related to its slavery economic system. After the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty, in order to alleviate the sharp contradiction between production relations and productivity and class struggle, slavery was transformed into serfdom.
As Wang Guowei said in On the System of Shang Dynasty: "The political and cultural changes in China were not carried out during the Yin and Zhou Dynasties ... On the surface, the three major changes in the Yin and Zhou Dynasties were nothing more than the rise and fall of a surname and the transfer of the capital. Judging from the implication, the old system is abolished and the new system is promoted, and the old culture is abolished and the new culture is promoted ... "
Compared with Shang Dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty promoted the rapid development of social spiritual civilization due to the great changes in the economic system. As a representative of literature, the appearance of The Book of Songs is an inevitable product of the progress of the times, which in turn promotes the progress of social civilization.