What is the first poem in The Book of Songs?

The first article in The Book of Songs is Guan Ju. Now Guanju is regarded as a poem describing the love between men and women. In this poem, the author first expresses a lady's love for a gentleman by singing in chorus with a pheasant. Later, people used the act of picking leeks to express a gentleman's love and pursuit for a lady. Guan Ju, the first poem in The Book of Songs, is lively, artistic and full of poetic beauty, and is still widely read today.

The creator of The Book of Songs

According to legend, there was an official who collected poems in the Zhou Dynasty. Every spring, he shakes Muduo and goes deep into the folk to collect folk songs. He sorted out the works reflecting people's sufferings, gave them to the officials in charge of music, and sang them to Zhou as a reference for management. The works of these unknown folk authors occupy most of the space in The Book of Songs, such as The Wind of Fifteen Countries. The works of aristocratic literati in Zhou Dynasty constitute another part of The Book of Songs.