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. Among them, 6 poems are Sheng poems, that is, they have only titles and no content, which are collectively called Sheng, Nanxun, Baihua and Huashu. The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them cannot be verified. They were collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius.
The Book of Songs was called "The Book of Songs" in the pre-Qin period, or called "The Book of Songs 300" by its integer. 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 is divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode.
As far as techniques are concerned, it can be divided into Fu, Bi and Xing. "Wind" is a ballad that spread all over the Zhou Dynasty, and "Ya" is the official elegant music of the Zhou people, which is divided into harmony and elegant music. Ode is a music song used in the court and noble ancestral temple of Zhou Dynasty, which is also divided into, and commercial songs.
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As a whole, The Book of Songs is an image reflection of China's social life during the 500-year rise and fall of the Zhou Dynasty, which includes the ode of ancestors' pioneering work, the movement of offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, and the resentment of nobles' banquets and uneven work and rest. There are also touching chapters reflecting labor, hunting and a lot of love, marriage and social customs.
There are 305 kinds of The Book of Songs, which are divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode. Wind, a folk song all over the country, is the essence of the Book of Songs. It sang beautiful things such as love and labor, and also sang the regret and anger of homesickness and anti-oppression and anti-bullying. It is often recited repeatedly. Each chapter in a poem is often only a few words different, which shows the characteristics of folk songs.
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. The author of Daya is an aristocratic scholar, but he is dissatisfied with the real politics. In addition to banquet songs, sacrificial songs and epics, he also wrote some satirical poems reflecting people's wishes.
Ode is a poem dedicated to the ancestral temple, and the poems in Ya and Ode are of great value to the investigation of early history, religion and society. Among the above three parts, there are 40 songs of praise, 65,438+005 of elegance and the most wind, 65,438+060 of * * *, a total of 305 songs. The ancients took its integer and often said "poetry is 300".
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