What does the ode to elegance in The Book of Songs mean?

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China, which contains many poems with different themes and forms. Among them, style, elegance and praise are the main contents of The Book of Songs.

Feng refers to the earliest poem in the Book of Songs-the original chapter Feng. Most of them expressed their popular life feelings and social phenomena in the form of folk songs, such as Guanluo in Nan Zhou, Guo Feng and Truffles in tang style, Guo Feng.

Elegance refers to standardizing people's behavior by praising "ceremony". Elegant songs often show a kind of beauty of etiquette, although they also have folk colors, but they pay more attention to the moral value of "ceremony", such as "elegance, king of literature, Zhan Wan" and "car jurisdiction".

Ode refers to the flattery and praise to the monarch or literati, which aims to publicize the virtues of the monarch, praise the achievements of the virtuous ministers, and show a beautiful political and moral ideal, such as Ode to Zhou, Ode to Shang, and Ode to Xiao Yanan.

The three articles are different in content, form and use, but they represent the value and significance of The Book of Songs at different levels.