Book of Songs
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The "Book of Songs" is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry. It is the earliest collection of poems from the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (from the 11th century to the 6th century). There are 311 poems, of which 6 are Sheng poems. That is, only the title, no content, called the Six Sheng Poems (Nan Gai, Bai Hua, Hua Su, You Kang, Chong Wu, You Yi), reflecting the social outlook from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the late Zhou Dynasty for about 500 years.
The anonymity of the author of "The Book of Songs", most of which have been unable to be verified, are said to have been collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius. The "Book of Songs" was called "Poems" in the pre-Qin period, or "Three Hundred Poems" in whole numbers. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was revered as a Confucian classic, and it was first called the "Book of Songs" and is still in use today. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: "Wind", "Ya", and "Song". "Wind" is a song from all over the Zhou dynasty; "Ya" is the Zhou people's righteous voice and music, divided into "Xiaoya" and "Daya"; "Song" is the music and song of the royal court of the Zhou Dynasty and the ancestral temple of the nobles, and is divided into "Zhou Song”, “Lu Song” and “Song Song”.
Confucius once summarized the purpose of "The Book of Songs" as "innocent", and taught his disciples to read the "Book of Songs" as a standard for establishing words and deeds. Many pre-Qin scholars quoted the "Book of Songs". For example, Mencius, Xunzi, Mozi, Zhuangzi, Han Feizi, etc. quoted more sentences from the "Book of Songs" to enhance their persuasiveness. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the "Book of Songs" was regarded as a classic by Confucianism and became one of the "Six Classics" and the "Five Classics".
The "Book of Songs" is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and servitude, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and banquets, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals, plants, etc. It is the Zhou Dynasty A mirror of social life.
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