1, The Book of Songs is a collection of poems produced at the end of slave society in China. It is the beginning of China's ancient poetry and the earliest collection of poems.

We collected 305 ancient poems from 1 1 century BC to the 6th century BC. In addition, there are six poems with titles and no content, which are called sheng poems. No content is Nanchang, Bai Hua, Shu Hua, Youkang, Chongwu and You Yi. It reflects the social outlook of about 500 years from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period.

2. Spring and Autumn Period: Spring and Autumn Period, also known as Lin Jing or Lin Shi, is one of the six Confucian classics in ancient China. China's First Collection of National Historical Records and History. As a chronicle of Lu, it was revised by Confucius. Chunqiu became a classic later than the four books of poetry, calligraphy, ceremony and music.

3. The Analects of Confucius is a collection of recorded essays in China's Spring and Autumn Period, which was compiled by Confucius' disciples and re-disciples. It mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples and reflects Confucius' thoughts more intensively. It is one of the classic works of Confucianism. There are 20 books and 492 chapters in the book, which is the first "documentary". One of the ancient works that China is spreading and learning.

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1, the creative background of the Book of Songs

Joo Won?, the birthplace of the Zhou Dynasty, was suitable for agriculture. Poems such as Gong Liu and Mianmian Guaju in The Scholars all show that Zhou prospered the country with agriculture, and the development of agriculture promoted social progress. After the conquest, the Zhou clan became the master of the world, and the patriarchal clan system, land, slave private ownership and the rule of aristocratic lords became the social and political characteristics of this historical period.

Apart from the tyranny of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the replacement of Shang and Zhou Dynasties by Western Zhou Dynasty was mainly related to its slavery economic system. After the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty, in order to alleviate the sharp contradiction between production relations and productivity and class struggle, slavery was transformed into serfdom.

As Wang Guowei said in On the System of Shang Dynasty: "The political and cultural changes in China were not carried out during the Yin and Zhou Dynasties ... On the surface, the three major changes in the Yin and Zhou Dynasties were nothing more than the rise and fall of a surname and the transfer of the capital. Judging from the implication, the old system is abolished and the new system is promoted, and the old culture is abolished and the new culture is promoted ... "

Compared with Shang Dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty promoted the rapid development of social spiritual civilization due to the great changes in the economic system. As a representative of literature, the appearance of The Book of Songs is an inevitable product of the progress of the times, which in turn promotes the progress of social civilization.

2. The influence of Chunqiu on later generations.

No matter from which aspect, the groundbreaking of Chunqiu is indisputable. Its chronological style is one of the three major historical styles of "the sun and the moon take the second place, and the year takes the second place", which sets an example for later generations and has many imitators, especially Zi Tongzhi Jian.

Its private nature broke the official monopoly on history and became the pioneer of a hundred schools of thought contending. In the Twenty-Six History, as many as one third of people study privately, which can also be said to be caused by its guidance.

Its spring and autumn brushwork, no matter how many later generations pierced the attachment, but its own historical spirit is beyond doubt, that is, courage, frankness and selflessness. The continuity of China's history is closely related to the tenacity endowed by Confucius.

3. The later influence of The Analects.

The Analects of Confucius has been regarded as "the rule of the Five Classics, the throat of the Six Arts" since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "ousted a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone", and it is the first-hand material for studying Confucius and Confucianism, especially primitive Confucianism. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu combined Daxue, The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius and Mencius into four books, which made his position in Confucian classics improve day by day.

During the life extension period of the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial examination began to select scholars with the "four books". From then on, until the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty, the imperial examination was abolished, and The Analects of Confucius has always been the golden rule pursued by scholars.

The Analects of Confucius entered the classic bibliography in the Tang Dynasty. "There were Zhou Li, Yi Li and Li Ji in the Tang Dynasty, Zuo Zhuan, Ram and Gu Liang in the Spring and Autumn Period, plus The Analects of Confucius, Er Ya and Xiao Jing, which are the thirteen classics."

Zhao Pu, a politician in the Northern Song Dynasty, once said that "the Analects of Confucius governs the world". This reflects the great role and influence of this book in ancient China society.

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