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. After sorting out the works that can reflect the people's joys and sorrows, he gave them to the Taishi (the official in charge of music) to compose music and sing them to the Zhou Emperor as a reference for administration. The works of these unknown folk authors occupy most of the space in The Book of Songs, such as The Wind of Fifteen Countries.
Yin Jifu, a great teacher in Zhou Xuanwang, is said to be a collector and editor of The Book of Songs. In the name of Yin Jifu, Yang Bojun mentioned The Scholars Gao Song Pian and Yuan Min Pian, which are still reliable. Confucius was the only one who attributed the compilation of The Book of Songs to the Han Dynasty.
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The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems. The earliest record is the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the latest work is the Spring and Autumn Period. Textual research by experts in literature and history shows that The Book of Songs was written after Zhou Wuwang's downfall of Shang Dynasty (BC 1066).
"Song of Zhou" is the earliest work in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is the work of noble literati. It is mainly composed of ancestral temple music songs and ode to the gods, and some of them describe agricultural production. Daya is the product of the prosperous period of the Zhou Dynasty and the only remaining epic in ancient China. Xiaoya was born in the late Western Zhou Dynasty and moved eastward. Truffles and Ode to Shang Dynasty were both produced after Zhou Shi moved eastward (770 BC).