How many poems are there in the Book of Songs? How many poems are there?

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poetry in Chinese history. The "Book of Songs" was originally called "Poems", with a total of 305 poems (in addition, there are 6 poems with titles but no content, that is, there are no words, called six poems of Sheng. ), so it is also called "Three Hundred Poems".

Since the Han Dynasty, Confucianism has regarded it as a classic, so it is called the Book of Songs. (The official use of the Book of Songs should start in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty - Qu Wanli). Mao Heng and Mao Chang of the Han Dynasty once commented on the Book of Songs, so it is also called "Mao's Poems".

The authors of the poems in the Book of Songs are vast majority of impossible to verify. The area involved is mainly the Yellow River Basin, from Shanxi and eastern Gansu in the west, to the southwest of Hebei Province in the north, to Shandong in the east, and to the Jianghan River Basin in the south.

It collected 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, about 500 years, six of which had only titles. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was revered as a Confucian classic, and it was one of the "Five Classics" respected by Confucianism, which was originally called the "Book of Songs" and has been used to this day. **It is divided into three parts: wind, elegance and song, of which "wind" is a local folk song, with 15 national winds, a total of 160 songs; "Ya" is mainly a court song, divided into big Ya and small Ya, a total of one hundred and five; "Ode" is mainly a temple song, with 40 songs.

The main expressions are endowment, comparison, and rejuvenation. "Fu" is to lay out (perfunctory and straightforward), "than" is to say, "Xing" is to foretell other things to cause the words to be sung. The highest ideological and artistic value of the "Book of Songs" is the folk song, "the hungry sing about their food, and the laborer sings about their work", and "Cutting Tan", "Shuo Mouse" and "Hooligans" are the representative works of "wind".

The Book of Songs has had a profound impact on the development of poetry in later generations and has become the source of the realist tradition of classical literature in China. The Book of Poetry circulating in the world today is a collection of Mao's poems passed down by Mao Heng and Mao Chang.

The first sentence of the first chapter of the Book of Poetry is "Guan Guan Sui Dove, in the River Continent", and the "river" here is the Yellow River that we respectfully call our mother. On the "river" of that year, there were "doves" and "continents", the grass and trees were verdant, and the birds carried the flight and song, and today, Mo said that this kind of oasis for gentlemen and ladies to make "good deeds" has disappeared in the Yellow River, and even the "mulberry Pushang" that is only for the village women and villagers to make a wild tryst, the mulberry is also difficult to find a few plants, and the water in the "Pu" is also shallow and sandy.

There are 311 poems in the Book of Songs. The Book of Songs, the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry, is the earliest collection of poems, collecting poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (11th century BC to the 6th century BC), a total of 311 poems, of which 6 are sheng poems, that is, only titles, no content, called six sheng poems, reflecting the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the late Zhou Dynasty.

The author of the Book of Poetry is unknown, most of them have been unable to verify, it is said that Yin Jifu collected, Confucius compiled, "Book of Songs" in the pre-Qin period is called "Poetry", or take its whole number called "Poetry Three Hundred", the Western Han Dynasty Xin Wang defeated was respected as a Confucian classic, originally called "The Book of Songs", and has been used to this day, the Book of Poetry is divided into three parts of "Wind", "Ya" and "Song" in content, "Wind" is a ballad from all over the Zhou Dynasty; "Ya" is the positive sound of the Zhou people, and it is divided into "Xiao Ya" and "Da Ya"; "Song" is the music song of the Zhou royal court and the noble temple, and is divided into "Zhou Song", "Lu Song" and "Shang Song".