What is the masterpiece of banquet poems in The Book of Songs?

The representative poems of banquet in The Book of Songs include Xiaoya Luming Literature, Logging, The Mermaid, Jia Yu in the South, Liao Xiao, Zhan Lu, Gong, Jing Ke Zhe E and Thousand Songs.

Banquet poems in The Book of Songs, also known as Yan Yan's poems, generally refer to those poems that specifically describe the gathering and feasting of monarchs, ministers, relatives and friends. Xiaoya Luming Literature, Logging, Fish Beauty, Southern Jiayu, Liaoxiao, Zhan Lu, Tong Gong, Jingjing, Zhejiang, Hubei, Auspicious, Fish Algae, Guest First Banquet, etc., are less than the love poems and resentment poems in The Book of Songs, similar to sacrificial poems, but more than epic poems, farming poems and Song War poems. In nature, it is closely related to the development of China's ancient culture and has important ideological and cultural significance. It can be juxtaposed with the above poems and become a very important category among the "300 poems".

The so-called ritual and music culture is a systematic cultural form that germinated in primitive society and matured in the Western Zhou Dynasty after a long historical development. It includes two interrelated levels: spiritual culture (including philosophy, politics and law) and cultural value system (including ethics, art and behavior) based on slavery hierarchy, and its core is ritual, especially ceremony. At first, the ceremony was just some behavior habits and norms gradually formed by members of clan society in their production and life activities, which were observed by everyone. Due to the extremely low level of productivity development, the extremely narrow range of human social practice activities and the limitations of people's cognitive ability, primitive religion came into being and became the only spiritual force that dominated people's inner world, so various rituals and habits in religious sacrifice played a key role in the formation of rituals. Shuowen said, "Rites are achievements. So, everything is blessed by God. Follow the instructions. " "Hey, salute." According to Wang Guowei's explanation: "It is a gift to serve God." (Interpretation of the Rites of Gathering Forests in the Temple) This shows that the rituals and norms of initially serving the gods are the most important part of the ceremony. After the emergence of slave countries, slave owners and nobles gradually accumulated political experience in the process of ruling the country. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, in order to consolidate their rule, slave owners and nobles used these experiences to transform and develop the religious rituals, behavior habits and norms of primitive society, making them institutionalized and organized, which became an important system and ideological norm for maintaining slavery. This is the so-called Zhou Li. Specifically, it includes the following three aspects: First, the hierarchy of slavery and the hereditary system of enfeoffment. The second is the patriarchal clan system based on the consanguinity of the slave owners: according to this system, the slave owners' aristocratic class adjusted internal relations, maintained internal unity, and redistributed power and property according to the consanguinity of the clan. Third, various rituals and codes of conduct that embody the above two systems, such as crowns, weddings, funerals, sacrifices, swallows, archers, courtiers, etc. Through these festivals, it is clear that "the order between the monarch and the court has advantages and disadvantages, and the car, clothes, palace, diet, marriage, weddings and funerals, and sacrifices are divided into Li Shu" (Historical Records)

The special relationship between banquet and ritual music essentially determines the nature of banquet poetry and its internal relationship with ritual music, and also determines that banquet poetry can reflect the spiritual outlook of ritual music culture more comprehensively and prominently than wedding poems, funeral poems and custom poems in The Book of Songs.