Step 2 introduce
The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, which collected 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. The pre-Qin people called The Book of Songs "Poetry", or "Poetry 300" or integer "Poetry 300". In the Western Han Dynasty, it was revered as a Confucian classic, called The Book of Songs, which is still in use today. The Book of Songs was written in the Spring and Autumn Period, and was taught by Qi (Shen Pei), Lu (Mao Heng), Han (Han Ying) and Mao (Zhao Renmao) in the Han Dynasty. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, Qi, Lu and Han were all lost, leaving only the Biography of Mao Poetry. Mao poetry prevailed after the Eastern Han Dynasty and has been passed down to this day.
3. Main contents
There are 305 existing books in The Book of Songs, which are divided into three parts: Feng, Ya and Ode.
Wind has fifteen national styles and is a folk song of all countries in the world. This part of literature has the highest achievements, including praising beautiful things such as love and labor, complaining and angry about homesickness, thinking about people and opposing oppression and bullying.
Elegance and vulgarity are divided into elegance and vulgarity and Xiaoya, and most of them are poems that offer sacrifices to noble people, pray for a good harvest and praise their ancestors. 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 our study of early history, religion and society.
Confucius once summarized the purpose of the Book of Songs as "innocence" and educated his disciples and children to read the Book of Songs as their standard of speech and action. Among the pre-Qin philosophers, many people quoted The Book of Songs, such as Mencius, Xunzi, Mozi, Zhuangzi and Han Feizi. Quote the sentences in the Book of Songs to enhance your persuasiveness. Later, The Book of Songs was regarded as a classic by Confucianism and became one of the Six Classics (including Poetry, Calligraphy, Rites, Yue, Yi, Spring and Autumn) and Five Classics (without Yue).