What is the classification of The Book of Songs?

The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems. According to the different musical tones, The Book of Songs can be divided into three categories: wind, elegance and ode.

Wind refers to the local music of all places, elegance refers to the music of the areas directly under the jurisdiction of the Zhou Dynasty, and ode refers to the music, dance and songs sacrificed in ancestral temples.

Wind music is local music in different regions. The poem "Feng" is a folk ballad collected from 15 regions, including China, Yi, Yan, Wei, Wang, Zheng, Qi, Wei, Tang, Qin, Chen, Qi, Cao and Yi. *** 160 articles. Mostly folk songs.

Elegant music is the music directly under the jurisdiction of the Zhou Dynasty, which is called orthodox elegant music. The poem "Ya" is a musical song at a court banquet or meeting. According to different music, it can be divided into "Elegance" 3 1 song, "Xiaoya" 74, * * * 105. Except for a few Xiaoya folk songs, most of them are works of noble literati.

Ode is the dance music of ancestral temple, which mostly praises the achievements of ancestors. The ode is divided into 3/kloc-0 poems by Zhou Song, 4 poems by truffles, 5 poems by Shang Dynasty and 40 poems by * *. They are all works of noble literati. In terms of time, Song of Zhou and Ya were mostly produced in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty. A small part of Daya and most of it migrated eastward from the late Western Zhou Dynasty. Most of Guofeng, Truffle and Shangsong were produced in the Spring and Autumn Period.

In terms of ideological and artistic value, three praises are not as good as two elegance, and two elegance is not as good as fifteen national styles.

Feng Yasong and Fu Bi are called "Six Meanings".

Fu Bixing is three main ways of expression in The Book of Songs.

Fu: Tell the story directly, and spread it out for comparison. It is equivalent to our usual rhetorical method of parallelism.

Bi: Metaphor. It is equivalent to our commonly used figurative rhetoric.

Xing: to nourish the spirit with things, first talk about other things, and then use association to draw out what the poet wants to express, thoughts and feelings. It is equivalent to our usual symbolic rhetoric.