What is the Book of Songs, and how many verses are there?

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China, with a total of 305 articles. It is divided into three parts: wind, elegance and song, the wind refers to the wind of the fifteen countries, with the creation of the lower class working people, it is the essence of the Book of Poetry, Ya is the music of the court music officials, and the song is the song of the sacrifice to the gods.

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poetry in China. Originally, it was only called "Poetry", and Confucianism was listed as one of the classics, so it was called "Book of Songs". It collects poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty in the 11th century BC to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period in the 6th century AD.

The Book of Poetry is the first collection of poetry in China, including 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period for more than 500 years, also known as "Three Hundred Poems". In the pre-Qin period, it was called "Poems", or it was called "Three Hundred Poems" as an integer. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was revered as a Confucian classic, originally called the "Book of Songs", and has been used to this day.

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The Book of Songs has three parts: wind, elegance, and song. Among them, "wind" includes, "Zhou Nan", "Zhao Nan", "Shao Feng", "Hu Feng", "Wei Feng", "Wang Feng", "Zheng Feng", "Qi Feng", "Wei Feng", "Tang Feng", "Qin Feng", "Chen Feng", "Junifeng", "Cao Feng", "Feng Feng", etc., a total of 160 articles; Collectively known as the style of the fifteen countries. "Ya" is divided into "big Ya" and "small Ya", and there are 105 poems; "Song" is divided into "Zhou Song", "Lu Song", "Shang Song", and there are 40 poems.

The Book of Poetry is the first collection of poems in my country, with more than 300 articles, and I forgot how much.

According to the different tones of music and laughter, it is divided into three categories: wind, elegance and song.

Wind. It's 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, Huihonghan, Cao, and Feng. A total of 160 articles. Mostly folk songs.

Elegant. It is the ** of the area directly under the jurisdiction of the Zhou Dynasty, that is, the so-called Zhengsheng Yale. "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.

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 rent and artistic value, the three songs are not as good as the two elegant, and the two elegant are not as good as the style of the fifteen countries.

The Book of Songs has a total of 305 articles, composed of three parts: wind, elegance and song, and there are various sayings about the interpretation of wind, elegance and song, which are generally considered to be divided according to **, because the poems of the Book of Songs were originally music songs, due to the different characteristics of the tunes, divided into three categories, after the score was lost, only the lyrics remained, what we see today is just the base of the lyrics of a music.

Wind, local music, this part of the selection of fifteen countries and regions of the tunes, called the fifteen national winds, a total of 160 articles, the content is folk songs, these fifteen national winds are: Zhou Nan (now Shaanxi, Henan), Zhaonan (now Henan, Hubei), Ye, Yong, Wei, Wang, Zheng, Qi, Wei, Tang, Qin, Chen, Juni, Cao, Feng.

Among them, Zhounan and Zhaonan are produced in the middle reaches of the Han River and the Yangtze River, and the rest are in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. Most of the styles of the fifteen countries were written from the eastward migration of the Zhou dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn period, and most of them were folk songs.

The poem "Ya" is the tune of the king of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Wang Ji, Duliang Tuocheng area, is the Weishui Basin area, Yashi is the music of this region, the reason why this is so, there are two explanations: 1, Ya, the same as "Xia", Zhou called the Wang Ji of the Western Zhou Dynasty "Xia" Yale is "Xia Le", Xia Le is Wang Ji music tune 2:

Ya, Zhengye, Yale is Zhengle, at that time called the place of the vassal state ** for the vulgar music, the capital of Zhou Tianzi is the center of the country, out of the concept of respecting the king, the music of Wang Ji is called "Zhengle" Both explanations can be understood. "Ya" poems are divided into big and small, and the big and small elegance are similar to the large and small songs of the later generations, and the big and small tunes, of which the small Ya is closer to the "national style" may be the Wangji place that has not been transformed by the aristocracy**. 31 articles for Daya and 74 articles for Xiaoya, a total of 105 articles.

Most of them are aristocrats, and a few are the people. Regarding the production date, most of the works of "Daya" are works of the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and a small part of "Daya" and most of the works of "Xiaoya" are works of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Song", Song is a sacrificial religion, the content is divided into praise of the gods, the merits of the ancestors, 31 ode to the Zhou Dynasty, produced in the Wangji area, Weishui Basin, is the work of the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty. There are 4 Lu songs and 5 Shang songs, all of which are works from the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period after the eastward migration, produced in the Lu State and the Song State (Song is the descendant of Shang).

The Book of Poetry is divided into 305 articles, which are produced in the areas of today's Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi, and Hubei, and are written in about 500 years from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period.