Collected 305 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1 1 century) to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (6th century BC) for about 500 years. The poems in The Book of Songs are graceful, elegant and eulogizing. Feng is mostly a folk song with ideological significance and artistic value, *** 160. "Ya" is the official music of the Western Zhou Dynasty, with 105 articles, which are divided into "Ya" and "Ya". Ode is a dance music for the ruler to sacrifice to the ancestral temple, which is divided into 40 songs, including Zhou Song, Truffle and Shang Ode. The form of The Book of Songs is basically a four-character poem, which is relatively neat and generally adopts the methods of fu, comparison and xing. "Fu" is a direct narrative sentence; "Bi" is a metaphor; "Xing" is to get excited by something, which causes the following. This expression technique was inherited and developed by later generations. The Book of Songs describes and reflects the spirit of reality extensively and profoundly, creating an excellent tradition of China's poetry.
Therefore, The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China.