The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in the history of China literature, which spans about 500 years from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and A

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in the history of China literature, which spans about 500 years from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China's literary history, which contains more than 500 years' poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. Known as "the sage of poetry, the father without rhyme". Its content is rich and varied, involving life, labor, war, marriage, religion and other aspects, and it is also an important carrier of China's culture, history and humanities.

The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode, and * * * contains 305 poems. Among them, The Wind mainly reflects the rural customs of the Zhou Dynasty and describes life scenes such as love, marriage, labor and agriculture. Elegance is the representative of the court culture in the Zhou Dynasty, which mainly reflects the life customs of nobles, and ode is the reflection of the ritual system in the Zhou Dynasty, which mainly praises the achievements of emperors and the contributions of ancestors.

The creative ways and forms of The Book of Songs are also very diverse, including folk songs, Yuefu, Fu and so on, among which the most representative is the five-character poem. These poems not only made great achievements in art, but also made important contributions to the literary development and cultural inheritance of later generations.

Historically, The Book of Songs has also received different evaluations and influences. In the Tang dynasty, it was called "the treasure of classics" and was listed as one of the classics, which was widely read and studied. In Song Dynasty, due to the need of imperial examination, the direction of poetry creation was biased towards literary rhetoric and flowery rhetoric, while the research and inheritance of The Book of Songs was relatively weakened. In the Qing Dynasty, due to cultural repression and the decline of the imperial examination system, folk culture and literature began to get more attention and development, which also provided an opportunity for the Book of Songs to be carried forward again.

Today, we can still appreciate the wisdom and cultural heritage of the ancients from the Book of Songs, and we can also find inspiration and reference for contemporary literature and art from it. At the same time, it is our responsibility and mission to protect and inherit the cultural wealth of The Book of Songs.