Why is The Book of Songs called "a mirror of social life in the Zhou Dynasty"?

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in ancient China. This poem can be said to be the originator of ancient mountains. There are 365,438+065,438+0 poems and 6 poems in this collection of poems, but there is no content. There is another nickname for The Book of Songs, which is 300 Poems. Ancient editors took integers, so they called 300 poems.

These 300-odd poems are mainly divided into three categories, namely, ode to elegance, and the most commonly used technique in The Book of Songs is "Fu Bi Xing". Through reading, we can know all aspects of life in the Zhou Dynasty, so some people call it The Book of Songs, which is a mirror of social life in the Zhou Dynasty.

Let's talk about the book of songs and the wind first. Actually, there are many parts about the wind. Wind is the core content in The Book of Songs. What does the wind mean? Wind refers to country wind, which means folk songs. These poems all come from the people. Many of these poems are about folk love and marriage stories and the living conditions of ordinary people's labor struggle. By reading this part, we can see what the daily life of ordinary people in Zhou Dynasty was like.

This part mainly praises Wang Wen's contribution. By reading these poems, we can see the social development process of Zhou Dynasty, some basic information of agricultural production and some information of Zhou Dynasty.

The last part is an ode. In fact, sending is an ode to sacrifice. This kind of music song is often accompanied by dance. In the Zhou Dynasty, there were actually many such music songs, all of which were suspected of whitewashing peace. From here, we can see the other side of the Zhou Dynasty.