The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, which was called "Poems" or "Poems 300" in the pre-Qin period and was compiled by Confucius. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted Dong Zhongshu's suggestion of "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", and respected the Book of Songs as a classic and named it The Book of Songs.
There are 305 existing poems in The Book of Songs, including more than 500 years of folk songs and temple movements from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, which are divided into three chapters: style, elegance and ode.