What is the classification of The Book of Songs?

the classification of the book of songs is wind, elegance and ode.

The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poetry. It is the earliest collection of poems. It has collected 311 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (from the 11th century to the 6th century before), of which 6 poems are Sheng poems, that is, there are only titles but no contents, which are called Six Poems of Sheng (Nan Chang, Bai Hua, Hua Shu, You Kang).

The author of The Book of Songs is anonymous, and most of them have been unable to be verified. They were collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius. In the pre-Qin period, The Book of Songs was called "The Book of Songs", or it was called "The Book of Songs 3" in whole numbers. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, and it was originally called The Book of Songs, which has been used ever since. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: Feng, Ya and Ode. "Wind" is a ballad from all over the Zhou Dynasty. Elegance is the formal music of Zhou people, and it is divided into Xiaoya and Daya. Ode is a musical song sacrificed by Zhou Wangting and the aristocratic ancestral temple, which is divided into Zhou Song, Lu Song and Shang Song.

Confucius once summarized the purpose of the Book of Songs as "innocence" and educated his disciples to read the Book of Songs as the standard for their statements and actions. Among the pre-Qin philosophers, many people quoted the Book of Songs, such as Mencius, Xunzi, Mozi, Zhuangzi, Han Feizi, etc., quoted the sentences in the Book of Songs to enhance their persuasiveness. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, The Book of Songs was regarded as a classic by Confucianism and became one of the Six Classics and Five Classics.

The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and banquets, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of social life in the Zhou Dynasty.