Why is The Book of Songs the earliest collection of poems in China?

The main features of The Book of Songs: The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poems and the earliest collection of poems. The content is rich, the language image is vivid and colorful, and polysyllabic words and reduplications are widely used. The abundant nouns in The Book of Songs show that the poet has a full understanding of objective things. The concrete and accurate action description shows the poet's meticulous observation and mastery of language.

The sentence pattern of The Book of Songs is mainly four words, four sentences are independent chapters, and there are two to eight words in the middle. The two-beat four-sentence has a strong sense of rhythm and is the basic unit that constitutes the neat rhythm of the Book of Songs.

The author of the expanded material "The Book of Songs" is anonymous, and most of it can't be verified. It was collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius. In the pre-Qin period, the Book of Songs was called "The Book of Songs", or it was called "The Book of Songs 300" by integers.

In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which has been in use ever since. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode. "Wind" is a ballad of Zhou Dynasty. Elegant music is the official music of Zhou people, which is divided into harmony and elegance. Ode is a musical song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and noble ancestral temples, which is divided into ode to, and ode to Shang.

Confucius once summarized the purpose of the Book of Songs as "innocence" and educated his disciples to read the Book of Songs as their standard of speech and action. Among the pre-Qin philosophers, many people quoted The Book of Songs, such as Mencius, Xunzi, Mozi, Zhuangzi and Han Feizi. Quote the sentences in the Book of Songs to enhance your persuasiveness.