The Book of Songs as a whole is an image reflection of the social life of China during the five hundred years of the Zhou Dynasty's rise and decline. It contains hymns about ancestors' entrepreneurship, music for worshiping gods and ghosts; There are also touching chapters reflecting labor, hunting, and a large number of love affairs, marriages, and social customs.
The "Book of Songs" has 305 existing chapters (in addition to 6 chapters with no poems and 311 chapters), it is divided into three parts: "Wind", "Ya" and "Song".
"Wind" comes from folk songs from various places and is the essence of the "Book of Songs". It contains songs about love, labor and other beautiful things, as well as laments about nostalgia for the homeland, longing for people, and resistance to oppression and bullying. Anger and anger are often chanted repeatedly using the technique of duplication. Each chapter in a poem often only has a few different words, which reflects the characteristics of folk songs. ?
"Ya" is divided into "? Daya" and "? Xiaoya". Most of them are poems for nobles to pray for good harvests and praise their ancestors' virtues. The author of "Daya" was an aristocratic scholar, but he was dissatisfied with the real politics. In addition to banquet songs, sacrificial songs and epic poems, he also wrote some satirical poems that reflected the people's wishes. There are also some folk songs in "Xiaoya".
"Ode" is a poem for worship in the ancestral temple. The poems in "Ya" and "Song" are of great value for examining early history, religion and society.
Among the above three parts, there are 40 poems in "Song" and 105 poems in "Ya" (there are 6 poems in "Xiaoya" with no poems, not included), and "Wind" has the largest number. , ***160 articles, a total of 305 articles. The ancients took the integer and often said "three hundred poems".
The Book of Songs is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry and the earliest poetry collection. It collects poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (11th century BC to 6th century BC), with 311 poems. Six of them are Sheng poems, which only have titles but no content. They are called the six Sheng poems (Nanmei, Baihua, Huashui, Youkang, Chongwu, and Youyi). They reflect about the history from the early to the late Zhou Dynasty. The face of society over the past five hundred years. ?
The author of "The Book of Songs" is unknown, and most of it cannot be verified. It is said that it was collected by Yin Jifu and compiled by Confucius. The Book of Songs was called "The Book of Songs" in the pre-Qin period, or the round number was called "The Three Hundred Songs".
It was revered as a Confucian classic during the Western Han Dynasty and was first called the Book of Songs, which is still used today. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: "Wind", "Ya" and "Song". "Wind" is a ballad from various places in the Zhou Dynasty; "Ya" is a formal song of the Zhou people, and is divided into "? Xiaoya" and "? Daya"; "Ode to Zhou", "Ode to Lu" and "Ode to Shang".
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia entry ?Book of Songs