Baike starts off each of the prelude descriptors to these poems by describing them as poems for sacrifices/offerings. Baike adds for this one that it is supposed to be accompanied by song and dance, as it is part of a longer performance, the Da Wu. The music has been lost, but there are records of the dance -- the description is quite long, but shows Zhou Wu wang leading his troops, fighting, and then returning. This poem should be the first song of the Da Wu.