The earliest works in The Book of Songs were written in the early Western Zhou Dynasty. According to the Book of History, The Wind and the Owl were written by Zhou Gongdan. A group of bamboo slips from the Warring States Period (referred to as Tsinghua bamboo slips) in Tsinghua University in 28 described that King Wu and others celebrated drinking after defeating Li Guo, during which Zhou Gongdan's impromptu poem "Cricket" was closely related to the existing one in The Book of Songs tang style. The latest work was written in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. According to Zheng Xuan's Preface to Poetry, it was Martin Zhulin, which spanned about 6 years.
The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in the history of China. The Book of Songs was originally called "Poetry", and there are 35 poems in * * * (in addition, there are 6 poems with topics and no content, that is, there are no words, which are called six poems of Sheng. What has no content is Nan Chang, Bai Hua, Hua Shu, You Kang, Chong Wu and You Yi), so it is also called "Three Hundred Poems" and "Three Hundred Articles". Confucianism regarded it as a classic since the Han Dynasty, so it was called The Book of Songs. (The official use of The Book of Songs should have started in the early years of Southern Song Dynasty-Qu Wanli). In the Han Dynasty, Mao Heng and Maoli had annotated The Book of Songs, so they were also called Mao Poems. Most of the authors of the poems in The Book of Songs can't be verified. The areas involved are mainly the Yellow River Basin, starting from Shanxi and eastern Gansu in the west, southwest Hebei Province in the north, Shandong in the east, Jianghan Basin in the south. It collected 35 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period for about 5 years, and six of them only had titles. It was honored as a Confucian classic in the Western Han Dynasty, and it was one of the "Five Classics" honored by Confucianism. It was originally called The Book of Songs and has been used ever since. Music is divided into three parts: wind, elegance and ode. Among them, "wind" is a local folk song with 15 national styles and 16 songs. "Elegance" is mainly court music songs, divided into elegance and elegance, with 15 articles; "Ode" is mainly ancestral temple music songs, with 4 songs. The expression techniques are mainly Fu, Bi and Xing. "Fu" means laying out (telling the truth about Chen Qi), "Bi" means analogy, and "Xing" means saying something else first to arouse the words sung. Folk songs have the highest ideological and artistic value in The Book of Songs. "Hungry people sing about their food, and laborers sing about their affairs." Cutting Tan, Shuoshu and Mang are the representative works of Feng. The Book of Songs has a far-reaching influence on the development of later generations' poetry and has become the source of the realistic tradition of Chinese classical literature. The book of songs circulating in today's world is the collection of Mao's poems handed down by Mao Heng and Scapharca subcrenata.