The classification of the Book of Songs, what are the categories of the Book of Songs?

The Book of Poetry is divided into three categories: wind, elegance, and song according to the different tunes. The wind is a different region of the place**. The poems of "Wind" are folk songs collected from 15 regions, including Zhounan, Zhaonan, Shao, Hu, Wei, Wang, Zheng, Qi, Wei, Tang, Qin, Chen, Hui, Cao, and Feng.

Ya" poems are the music songs of the court banquet or court meeting, and are divided into 31 "Daya" and 74 "Xiaoya" according to the difference of **, a total of 105 pieces. Except for a small number of folk songs in "Xiao Ya", most of them are works of aristocratic literati. Song is a dance song of the temple sacrifice, and the content is mostly to praise the deeds of the ancestors.

The poems are divided into 31 "Zhou Song", 4 "Lu Song", and 5 "Shang Song", a total of 40 articles. All are the works of aristocratic literati. From the perspective of time, most of the "Song of Zhou" and "Daya" were produced in the early Western Zhou Dynasty; A small part of "Daya" and most of "Xiaoya" were produced from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the eastward migration; Most of the "National Style" and "Lu Song" and "Shang Song" were produced in the Spring and Autumn Period.

From the point of view of ideological and artistic value, the three songs are not as good as the two elegances, and the two elegances are not as good as the fifteen national styles.

"Wind", also known as "National Wind", has a total of 15 groups"Wind"This is a general term for music. The 15 sets of national styles are not the music of 15 countries, but the music of more than a dozen regions. The national style includes the music songs of Zhounan, Zhaonan, Shao, Yong, Wei, Wang, Zheng, Hui, Qi, Wei, Tang, Qin, Feng, Chen, and Cao, with a total of 160 pieces.

Guofeng was a popular local song at that time, with a local color. In terms of content, most of them are folk songs. Most of the authors were folk singers, but there were also individual aristocrats.

There are different opinions on the understanding of Ya. One view is that it refers to the ** of the region directly ruled by the Zhou Dynasty"Ya"Yes"Positive"Meaning, take this kind of ** as"Zhengsheng", which is intended to show the difference from other places**. It is also said"Ya"with"Summer"In parallel, Xia is the name of the region directly ruled by the Zhou Dynasty.

There is also a view that "Ya" refers to the elegance that everyone can understand**. There are a total of 105 articles in "Ya", which are divided into 31 articles in "Daya" and 74 articles in "Xiaoya". Most of the works of "Ya" are works of court officials and ministers, and a small part is folk songs.

The content is almost always about politics, some praise good people and good governance, and some satirize bad governance. There are only a few poems that express personal feelings. But there are no love poems.

"Ode" is a piece of music for nobles to worship ghosts and gods in their family temples and praise the merits of the ruler, and it is played with a dance. It is divided into "Song of Zhou", "Song of Lu" and "Song of Shang", a total of 40 articles. Among them, there are 31 articles of "Song of Zhou", which are believed to be works of the Western Zhou Dynasty, mostly written before King Zhao of Zhou and King Mu of Zhou; 4 articles of "Lu Song", which are thought to be the works of Lu Xun; "Shang Song" is believed to be a work of the Song Kingdom before the Spring and Autumn Period.