What's the difference between Daya and Xiaoya?

Elegance and Xiaoya are common sayings in The Book of Songs.

1, "Daya" is mostly poems in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and "Xiaoya" is mostly poems from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period.

2. "Daya" is mostly a hymn, praising the luxurious life of the ruling class; Xiaoya is mainly a poem full of resentment, expressing the dissatisfaction of the lower nobility.

3. In style, elegance is graceful and elegant, and poetry is not strong; Xiaoya is lively and has high artistic value.

The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poetry. It was originally called "Poetry" or "Poetry 300". It collected 305 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), among which 6 poems were filled with titles, with no content.

Confucius once summarized the purpose of the Book of Songs as "innocence" and educated his disciples to read the Book of Songs as their standard of speech and action. Among the pre-Qin philosophers, many people quoted The Book of Songs, such as Mencius, Xunzi, Mozi, Zhuangzi and Han Feizi. Quote the sentences in the Book of Songs to enhance your 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 feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty and is known as the encyclopedia of life in ancient society.