Wind, a folk song all over the country, is the essence of the Book of Songs. It sang beautiful things such as love and labor, and also sang regret and anger at homesickness and anti-oppression and anti-bullying. Often repeated chanting through repeated superposition. Each chapter in a poem is often only a few words different, which shows the characteristics of folk songs.
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. The author of Daya is an aristocratic scholar, but he is dissatisfied with the real politics. In addition to banquet songs, sacrificial songs and epics, he also wrote some satirical poems reflecting people's wishes. 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 the study of early history, religion and society.
In the above three parts, 40 articles were assigned, including Ya 105 (6 articles without poems, not counting), with the largest number, * * * 160, totaling 305 articles. The ancients took its integer and often said "poetry is 300".
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The sentence pattern of The Book of Songs is mainly four words, four sentences are independent chapters, and there are two to eight words in the middle. The two-beat four-sentence has a strong sense of rhythm and is the basic unit that constitutes the neat rhythm of the Book of Songs. The four-character sentence has a clear rhythm and is slightly shorter, while the rhyme of the complex sentence and the double tone seems to go back and forth, and the rhythm is slow. The repetitive structure of repeated chapters and sentences in The Book of Songs is not only convenient for repeated singing around the same melody, but also has a good effect on meaning expression and rhetoric.
Many repeated chapters in The Book of Songs are all overlapped by the same chapter, and only a few words are changed to express the process of action or the change of mood. For example, Nan Zhou's Secret only changed six verbs in three chapters, describing the whole process of picking tangerines. The structure of repeated circulation and flexible use of words puts the different links of picking lotus seeds in three chapters, which complement each other and form a whole in meaning, singing and sighing, which is very graceful.
In addition to overlapping chapters, there is also an article in the Book of Songs, which has two overlapping chapters, such as Zheng Fengfeng, which consists of four chapters, the first two chapters are one chapter and the last two chapters are one chapter; Or in an article, there are both heavy chapters and heavy chapters, such as the four chapters of Nan Zhou Juan Er, the first chapter does not overlap, and the last three chapters are heavy chapters.
Baidu Encyclopedia-The Book of Songs (the earliest collection of poems in China)