The main contents of The Book of Songs include eulogizing virtues, farming, courtship, war corvee, marriage and love.
A hymn of praise and virtue. Most of the sacrificial poems preserved in The Scholars and Three Odes mainly worship ancestors, or describe the history of the tribe's occurrence and development, or praise the virtues of previous kings. In short, they are works praising virtue. For example, Sheng Min, Gong Liu, Mian, Yi Di and Daming are regarded as Zhou epic works, which praised the achievements of Hou Ji, Gong Liu, Wang Ji and others and reflected the history of the founding of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Farming poems. For example, "Zhou Song Harvest Year" describes the scene of agricultural harvest at the beginning of the week: "There are many harvests in the harvest year, and there are also high harvests, just in case." This kind of works in The Book of Songs truly recorded the customs and etiquette related to Zhou people's agricultural production, and reflected the agricultural economic situation and social productivity level at that time. In addition, July, as the best agricultural poem in The Book of Songs, describes the peasants' hard work and their own living conditions for one year, so that future generations can truly feel their misfortune and pain.
Yan Yan's poems. There are also Yan Yan's poems in The Book of Songs, the main content of which is the gathering and feasting of relatives and friends. For example, "Xiaoya Luming Literature" is a poem written by guests at a banquet in Tian Zi: "Yo yo Luming Literature, wild apples. I have a group of good guests, playing the piano and playing the piano. A blowing sheng reed, a basket of gifts. People were kind to me and showed it to me for a week. " This kind of poetry is a reflection of social prosperity and harmony in the early Zhou Dynasty.
Bitter poems. At the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, due to the abandonment of the imperial platform, social unrest and political darkness, a large number of bitter poems appeared, reflecting the confusion and criticism of current politics. Such as the elegant people's labor, the beautiful knot of Nanshan, the national style of cutting tan, Shuo and so on. It reflects the phenomenon of heavy taxes, political darkness and poor people in the Zhou Dynasty.
War corvee poem. Some articles in The Book of Songs praise the war from the front, such as Qin Feng Without Clothes. There are also stories about the homesickness and anger brought to soldiers by the war, such as Xiaoya Cai Wei. The corvee poems in The Book of Songs, such as Don Yu Yu and Feng Wei Bo Xi, show the resentment and war-weariness of the lower classes. They wrote about the sufferings brought by the corvee to the people.
Love poems. Love poems occupy a large proportion in The Book of Songs. There are not only love poems describing the love between men and women, but also marriage and family poems reflecting the life of marriage and family, as well as poems expressing the pain caused by unfortunate marriage to women. The peak girl describes the tryst between men and women; Nan Zhou Yao Tao showed a happy marriage and family; "Meng" and "Gao Feng" describe the tragic experience of abandoned wives.
The Book of Songs consists of 305 articles, which are divided into three parts: style, elegance 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).