The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China's literary history, including 35 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. The so-called "six meanings" in The Book of Songs refers to three poetic forms of "style, elegance and praise" and three expressive techniques of "fu, bi and xing".

Basic information

The book

The Book of Songs

includes the types

Feng, Ya, Ode, Fu, Bi, Xing

Regional

China

Brief introduction of Feng, Ya, Ode, Fu, Bi, Xing. Among them, wind, elegance and ode are divided according to different music. Zheng Qiao said, "The voice of the local customs is wind, the voice of the imperial court is elegance, and the voice of the ancestral temple is praise." (See Preface to General Records)

Introduction

Wind

That is, national wind, which is a folk song in various places and the most successful part of the Book of Songs. In The Book of Songs, * * * has fifteen national styles, with 16 articles.

Common titles, such as Guanluo, Jianjia, Taoyao, Dingzhifangzhong, Bai Zhou, Gentleman's Growing Old Together, Cutting Tan, Shuoshu, Fanke, Dongshan, etc.

Elegance

includes Elegance and Elegance, of which 31 are Elegance and 74 are Elegance. Most of them are made by officials and nobles, and they are generally regarded as "positive voices". Elegance is a masterpiece of praise, while Xiaoya is full of irony.

Common titles such as Picking Wei, Luming Literature, Jianghan, Si Qi (the first two belong to Xiaoya, the last two belong to Elegance) and so on.

ode

is the music of offering sacrifices and praising saints, which can be divided into Zhou Song, Lu Song and Shang Song. There are 31, 4 and 5 articles respectively.

Common titles such as I Will, You Ke, Xuanniao, etc.

Fu

Fu is a direct narrative. Is the most basic expression. Zhu Xi's Biography of Poems: "The giver, the giver, and the Chen Qi, and the outspoken".

such as "life and death are rich, and Zi Cheng said. Hold your hand and grow old with your son. " That is, express your feelings directly

and make a vow with you. "Say" doesn't mean "Yue" here.

Bi

Zhu Xi: "If you compare, compare this thing with another." Metaphor, simile and metaphor all belong to this category.

For example, Wei Feng Shuo Shu and Gao Feng Xin Tai are all compared throughout.

Xing

Zhu Xi: "Xing, first talk about other things to arouse the chanted words." That is, get excited and use other things to draw out what you want to say.

For example, "Guan Guan's dove is in the river continent. My fair lady, a gentleman is good. " That is, use the dove bird to cheer up in the river. Wei Feng Cut Tan is also an outstanding example of this expression.

Summary

All the poems collected in The Book of Songs can be sung with music. According to the different forms, contents and languages of music and poetry, The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode.

Wind is music with local colors, including the "National Wind" in the Tenth Five-Year Plan, that is, folk songs in fifteen places. The "national style" has preserved a large number of oral creations of working people and has strong folk song characteristics. The content of this part of poetry has distinct realistic characteristics, reflecting the living situation, ideology and aesthetic concept of the people at that time, and expressing their true feelings and profound understanding of social life. The language of "national style" is simple and vivid, full of images, and it is expressed accurately and beautifully in many places with double tones, overlapping rhymes and overlapping words. Formally, it is mostly four words into sentences, with rhyme in every other sentence, which is full of rhythm and music. At the same time, there are many overlapping chapters, which have the artistic beauty of singing and sighing, and are the essence of the Book of Songs.

Ya is the music in the area directly ruled by Zhou Dynasty.