The Book of Songs is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry and the earliest collection of poems. It collects poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (pre-1 1 century to the 6th century), **3 1 1 poems, of which 6 poems are Sheng poems, that is, they have only titles but no contents, and are called Sheng.
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. 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 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.
Appreciation of The Book of Songs
The Book of Songs pays attention to reality and expresses the true feelings caused by real life. This creative attitude makes it have a strong and profound artistic charm, which is the first milestone of China's realistic literature. The language of The Book of Songs not only has the beauty of music, but also has a good effect in ideographic and rhetoric. In the era of The Book of Songs, Chinese has been rich in vocabulary and figures of speech, which provides good conditions for the poet's creation. The abundant nouns in The Book of Songs show that the poet has a full understanding of objective things.
The language form of The Book of Songs is vivid and colorful, which can often achieve "twice the result with half the effort" and "a thousand emotions". However, the language style and national style of Ya and Song are different. Most of the chapters in Ya and Song use a strict four-character case, with few miscellaneous words, while there are many miscellaneous words in the national style. In "Xiaoya" and "National Style", repeated chapters and sentences are often used, but they are rare in the aspect of appealing to both refined and popular tastes.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-The Book of Songs.