What is the earliest collection of poems in ancient China? Poetry is divided into style, elegance and vulgarity, praise.

The Book of Songs is a collection of poems produced at the end of slave society in China more than 2,500 years ago. It is the beginning of China's ancient poetry and the earliest collection of poems. There are 305 ancient poems from 1 1 century BC to the 6th century BC, and there are 6 poems of Sheng, which reflect the social outlook of about 500 years from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period.

There are 305 existing books in The Book of Songs, which are divided into three parts: Feng, Ya and Ode.

Wind has fifteen national styles, which come from folk songs all over the country. It is the essence of The Book of Songs. It sang beautiful things such as love and labor, and also sang regret and anger about homesickness, yearning for people and anti-oppression and anti-bullying. Repeated chanting is often used, and each chapter in a poem is often only a few words different, which shows the characteristics of folk songs.

Elegance and vulgarity are divided into elegance and vulgarity and Xiaoya, and most of them are poems that offer sacrifices to noble people, pray for a good harvest and praise their ancestors. The author of Daya is an aristocratic scholar, but he is dissatisfied with the real politics. In addition to banquet songs, sacrificial songs and epics, he also wrote some satirical poems reflecting people's wishes. Xiaoya also has some folk songs.

Ode is a poem dedicated to the ancestral temple. The poems in Ya and Ode are of great value to the study of early history, religion and society.