《商颂》究竟是商人诗歌还是春秋宋人作品,这是《诗经》研究中聚讼两千多年的学案。先秦典籍多将《商颂》视为商代祭歌,但汉初今文三家诗却认为《商颂》是孔子七世祖正考父赞美宋襄公的作品。古文《毛诗》则倡《商颂》为商诗之说。自三家诗式微、《毛诗》独行于世之后,历魏晋六朝至清代初叶,基本上是商诗说占据主导地位。清代中叶后今文经学复兴,今文经学家魏源、皮锡瑞、王先谦等人高举三家诗旗帜,力主《商颂》为宋诗。魏 “Business Song” is the merchant poetry or works of the Spring and Autumn Songs, this is the study of the “Book of Songs” more than two thousand years of study case. Most of the Pre-Qin classics regarded “Shangsong” as Shangdi Sacrifice, but in the early Han Dynasty, the three poems of this article believed that “Shangsong” was the work of Song Xianggong, the ancestor of Confucius’s ancestral home. Ancient “Mao Poetry” advocated “Shang Song” as the business poem. Since the three poems, “Mao Poems” after the soliloquy, from the Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties to the early Qing Dynasty leaves, basically is the dominant business poetry. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the text classics revived. Today’s Wenjing scholar Wei Yuan, Pi Xirui, Wang Xianqian and others held high the banner of the Three Poems and diligently advocated “Shang Song” as the Song poetry. Wei