What are Daya and Xiaoya in The Book of Songs?

Xiaoya is music for entertaining guests. "Elegance" is the music that the monarch accepts the worship and statement of his subordinates. Elegance refers to elegant music that everyone can understand. Ya *** 105, divided into Ya 3 1 and 74 articles.

Most of them are works of court officials and doctors, and a few are folk poems. Its content is almost all about politics, some praise good people and good politics, and some satirize bad politics. There are only a few poems expressing personal feelings. But there are no love poems. The "elegance" here can refer to the poems of aristocratic officials.

Have different views on you. One view is that it refers to the music directly ruled by the Zhou Dynasty, and "elegance" means "righteousness". This kind of music is regarded as "positive tone", which is intended to show the difference from music in other places. It is also said that "Ya" and "Xia" are interlinked, and Xia is the name of the region directly ruled by the Zhou Dynasty.

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Regarding the classification of poems in The Book of Songs, there is a saying of "four beginnings and six meanings". "Four Beginnings" refers to four top poems: Feng, Elegance, Ode. "Six meanings" refers to "wind, elegance, praise, fu, comparison and glory". "Style, elegance and praise" are the classification of the Book of Songs according to different music, and "Fu, Bi and Xing" are the expressions of the Book of Songs.

Wind, also known as the national wind, has 15 groups, divided by region, including,, Changfeng, Changfeng,,, Zheng Feng and Ji.

Guo Feng is generally regarded as the literary essence of The Book of Songs, and later generations call it coquettish with Qu Yuan's Li Sao. Stylistically, the national wind has a strong local color; From the content point of view, Guo Feng is mostly a folk song, and the author is mostly a folk singer except a few aristocrats.

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