The Book of Songs is China's first book.

The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, which collected poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), including ***3 1 1 first.

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. 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 regret and anger at homesickness and anti-oppression and anti-bullying. Often repeated chanting through repeated superposition. 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. 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 the study of early history, religion and society.

The value of the book of songs:

Judging from the value of historical materials, The Book of Songs actually comprehensively reflects the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period, and records the historical development and realistic situation from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period in all directions, covering almost all aspects of society-politics, economy, military, folk customs, culture, literature, art and so on. When describing this historical stage, a considerable part of the history books of later historians are based on the records of the Book of Songs.

For example, epics such as "People's Life" in "Daya" are ancestor worship poems, which record the history of Zhou from the late matriarchal society to the destruction of the Shang Dynasty and the founding of the People's Republic of China, and praise the brilliant achievements of Hou Ji, Gong Liu, Wang Ji and so on.

The historical value of these poems is obvious. They recorded the emergence and development of the Zhou Dynasty, the historical process of the demise of the Shang Dynasty, the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty and the unification of the world, as well as the great migration and great war in this historical development process, reflecting the political, economic, folk-custom and military aspects of the Zhou Dynasty and leaving valuable historical materials for future generations.

Baidu Encyclopedia-The Book of Songs