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, which spans about five or six hundred years. The origin is centered on the Yellow River basin, south to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Hubei and other places.
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. There are always different opinions about the creation time of Eighteen Poems of Daya: Zheng Xuan thinks that Poems of King Wen are poems in the era of King Wen and King Wu, and eight poems, such as Poems of Sheng Min to Juan, are poems of Duke Zhou and Wang Cheng. Zhu thought: "it's' elegance' ... this was decided when Duke Zhou made it." But they all think that "Chaya" is a poem in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
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).