The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of ancient Chinese poems, which collected poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), including ***3 1 1 first.
Six of them are Sheng poems, that is, they have only titles but no contents, and they are collectively called six Sheng poems (Nan Chang, Bai Hua, Shu Hua, You Geng, Qiu Chong and You Yi), which reflect the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the weekend.
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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, 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.
It is said that there are as many as 3,000 poems handed down in the Spring and Autumn Period, and now only 3 1 1 is left (six of them are poems without eyes). After Confucius compiled The Book of Songs, the earliest recorded inheritor was Xia Zi, one of the "Ten Philosophers of Confucius" and one of the 72 sages. He has the deepest understanding of poetry, so he passed it on.
There were three poets in the early Han Dynasty, namely Shen Peigong of Lu, Gu Sheng of Qi and Han Ying of Yan. Qi's poems died in Wei, Lu's poems died in the Western Jin Dynasty, and Han's poems still spread in the Tang Dynasty, with only 10 volume left. The Book of Songs circulated today is a poem by Mao Gong.
Baidu Encyclopedia-The Book of Songs