First of all, it initiated the fine tradition of China's poetic realism. His creative spirit of "Hungry people sing about their food, and laborers sing about their things" has inspired and promoted later writers to pay attention to reality, national destiny and people's livelihood. For example, the Yuefu works of Han Yuefu folk song writers, Jian 'an poets, Chen Ziang, Du Fu and the poets of the New Yuefu Movement are the direct inheritors of this creative spirit.
Secondly, his artistic techniques of fu, bi and xing provided a successful artistic reference for later literary creation. Later, Qu Yuan expressed his love and hate by using the satirical works of vanilla beauty, allegorical poems in Han Yuefu folk songs, Ruan Ji's "Love", Guo Pu's "Wandering Immortals", Li Bai's "Antique", Li Shangyin's "Jinse", Lu You's "Buji Yongmei" and the beauty thorn in Yuan Zaju.
They are the inheritance and development of metaphor in The Book of Songs, and even formed the national characteristics of our country's literature with a long lasting charm and implicit implication. As for the technique of fu, it also had a far-reaching impact on later literature. Fu literature is directly developed from it. In addition, there are many works in poetry, ci, opera and novels that incorporate the technique of fu.
Thirdly, the position of folk literature in the history of literature was established. Most of the poems in The Book of Songs are folk songs, which are simple, fresh, lively, harmonious and natural, opening up a broad road for later scholars to learn folk literature.
Judging from the development of literary history, a new literary style is often conceived by the people first and then developed by the literati. Some successful writers in the past dynasties also enriched their creations by drawing lessons from folk literature. Learning from folk literature is a fine tradition in the history of China literature development.
Other artistic achievements in The Book of Songs also have a great influence on later generations. The vivid and accurate language in The Book of Songs laid the linguistic foundation for China's poetry creation. The frank language in The Book of Songs is deeply loved by later writers and is often borrowed from their own poems. The rhyme form, rhythm requirements, rhetorical devices and artistic conception in The Book of Songs are widely accepted by later generations. As the earliest collection of poems and classics, The Book of Songs became the forerunner of the same theme in later generations.