Airs of the States

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Airs of the States is a section of the ancient Chinese poetry anthology "Book of Songs," comprising folk songs from various regional states of the Zhou dynasty.

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Airs of the States canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Chinese literary work
section of poetry anthology
associatedWith Zhou dynasty
componentOf three main sections of the Book of Songs
contentType folk songs
labor songs
love songs
regional songs
ritual songs
satirical songs
contrastedWith Eulogies
Greater Court Hymns
Lesser Court Hymns
coversRegion border states of Zhou dynasty
states of the Central Plains
various feudal states of Zhou dynasty
culture Chinese
genre folk poetry
lyric poetry
hasForm four-character lines
short stanzas
historicalSignificance source on social life in early Zhou China
includedIn Thirteen Classics
influenced Han yuefu tradition
later Chinese lyric poetry
language Classical Chinese
literaryTradition Confucian canon
linked to: Confucian classics
partOf Book of Songs
Classic of Poetry
poeticDevice metaphor
parallelism
repetition
symbolism
script Chinese characters
structure organized by state
studiedBy Confucian scholars
theme complaints against rulers
labor and agriculture
love
marriage
ritual and custom
war and conscription
timePeriod Spring and Autumn period
Western Zhou period
titleInChinese Guofeng
usedFor moral and political instruction in Confucianism

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Book of Songs hasSection Airs of the States
Book of Odes hasSection Airs of the States
Classic of Poetry hasSection Airs of the States
Lesser Court Hymns relatedTo Airs of the States