The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems. From the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, that is, from1/kloc-0 to 600 years ago, 305 poems of about 500 years were collected.
The Book of Songs was called "Poetry" in the pre-Qin period, or the number of poems was called "Poetry 300". It was originally just a collection of poems. However, since the Han Dynasty, Confucian scholars have regarded the Book of Songs as a classic and honored it as the Book of Songs, ranking first among the Five Classics.
The poems in The Book of Songs originally had music lyrics. According to the nature of primitive music, they are divided into three categories: wind, elegance and ode.
"Wind" is the local wind, wind ballads, that is, folk songs around the country. "Wind" contains 15 national folk songs, namely "The Wind of Fifteen Countries", with *** 160 articles. It accounts for more than half of the Book of Songs. Compared with elegance and fu, wind is lively and full of life. For example, the opening novel Guan Ju is about young people's first love. Dream is about the sadness of a woman being abandoned by her husband. The subtle psychology of writing love in Jing Nv.
"Ya" is a formal and elegant music and an orthodox court music song. "Ya" can be divided into "Ya" and "Ya". "Elegance" is the ceremony of grand banquet; "Xiaoya" is a general banquet ceremony.
Ode is a kind of music song for sacrifice, which is used to worship ancestors, pray and praise the gods in the imperial ancestral temple. There are 40 existing songs.