What is the classification of the Book of Psalms?

The poems in the Book of Songs are categorized according to their musical key: Feng, Ya, and Song.

The poems in the Book of Songs were originally written as lyrics to music, and are divided into three categories: wind, elegance, and ode according to the nature of the music they were written to.

1, "wind" means the wind of the soil, wind ballads, including the fifteen vassal states of the folk songs and ballads, **** 160, accounting for more than half of the Book of Songs. Wind" mostly depicts the life and thoughts and feelings of the lower class people, the content appears lively, more life atmosphere, such as the opening "Guan Ju" written by young people who are in love for the first time.

2, "Ya" is the sound of elegant music, is the orthodox court music. "Ya" is divided into "Daya" and "small Ya", **** 105. The "Daya" is used for ceremonies of grand banquets; the "Xiaoya" is used for ceremonies of general banquets.

3. "Ode" is a ritual music, used for ancestor worship in the palace and temple, prayers and praises to the gods, and there are 40 pieces in existence***.

Expanded Information

Background:

The Zhou dynasty's ancestral home, the Zhou Yuan, was suitable for agriculture, and the "Daya" poems such as "Shengmin", "Gongliu", and "Sheep and Gourds" show that the Zhou dynasty depended on agriculture to flourish, and that the development of agriculture promoted social progress. The development of agriculture contributed to the progress of society. The Zhou clan became the master of the world after King Wu conquered Zhou, and the patriarchal system of the family, the private ownership of land and slaves, and the rule of the aristocratic lords became the socio-political characteristics of this historical period.

The replacement of Yin and Shang by the Western Zhou, apart from the tyranny of Shang Zhou, was mainly related to his slavery economic system. After the establishment of the Western Zhou, slavery was replaced by serfdom in order to ease the sharp contradiction between the relations of production and the productive forces and the class struggle.

As Wang Guowei said in the "Yin and Shang system": "China's political and cultural changes, there is no drama at the time of the Yin and Zhou ...... three major changes between the Yin and Zhou, from the surface, but the rise and fall of a family and a family name, and the transfer of the capital. From the inside, the old system is abolished and the new system is emerging, the old culture is abolished and the new culture is emerging ......"

Western Zhou compared to Yin and Shang, due to the great changes in the economic system, prompting the society in the spiritual civilization to produce a leap forward, as a representative of the literature of the "Poetry Classic" appeared to be an inevitable product of the progress of the times. The emergence of the Book of Songs as a representative of literature was an inevitable product of the progress of the times, and it in turn promoted the progress of civilization in society.

Baidu Encyclopedia - The Book of Songs