Culture of the Book of Songs
Reading Tang and Song poems and enjoying the ancient and modern literature, if one wants to trace back to the ancestors of the Chinese traditional poetry culture, it will surely be the Book of Songs, a gleaming literature gem dating back to the Zhou Dynasty (1046B.C.-256B.C.).
The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, and is ranked first among the “Four Books and Five Classics.” It can be called the quintessence of Chinese culture. Its editor Yin Jifu was born in Fangxian County, which was also the main place where he collected the songs. In a sense, The Book of Songs, a cultural gem inherited from thousands of years ago, was origined in Fangxian County, Shiyan City.
The Book of Songs is composed by the broad masses of working people in their daily production and work. In terms of content, the poems are classified as feng (ballad), ya (court hymn) and song (eulogy). It adopts three writing techniques, fu(exposition), bi(comparision) and xing(affective image). It collected poems of all classes from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. It contains 311 poems in total, which are rounded up and called Three Hundred Poems.
Among them, "Wind", which is based on the local customs of the Zhou Dynasty, mostly sings about the working life or love stories for the folk, spreads the optimistic attitude of the ancient people, and vividly reflects the simple folk customs of the people at that time.
"Ya" is the positive voice and elegant music of the Zhou people, and is an important part of the "Zhou ritual" worshipped by the ancient people.
Songs is the music for sacrificing in the royal court and noble ancestral temples of the Zhou Dynasty. The ancient people believed that "the national event, the Uyghur sacrifice and the military". The so-called positive voice and elegant music was solemnly applied in the national ceremony.
Since the Western Zhou Dynasty, the culture of the Book of Songs in Fangxian County has been handed down for thousands of years and is inseparable from the life of the local people. Up to now, Fangxian People's Beauty will sing the Book of Songs and folk songs at happy events. Fangxian County is also full of various folk songs, stories and cultural relics. On October 17, 2021, the Chinese Society of the Book of Songs awarded Fang County with the plaque "Hometown of Chinese Book of Songs Culture".
Confucius summarized the tenet of the Book of Songs as "innocence", and taught his disciples to read the Book of Songs as a standard for making statements and actions. The essence of the Book of Songs is, of course, that the content of the Book of Songs is refined from the living practices of ancient social strata and the vast number of working people. It is also because of "practice" that the value of the content of the Book of Songs is particularly demonstrated, making it immortal through the vicissitudes of life.
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