The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, isn't it?

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China, which contains about 500 years of poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century). There are also six poems with titles and no content, which are called sheng poems, also known as 300 poems.

The pre-Qin Dynasty was called The Book of Songs, or the whole book was called The Book of Songs. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was regarded as a Confucian classic, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which is still in use today. In the Han Dynasty, Mao Heng and Li Mao commented on The Book of Songs, so it was also called The Book of Songs.

Most of the authors of the poems in The Book of Songs cannot be verified. The area involved is mainly the Yellow River Basin, starting from Shaanxi and eastern Gansu in the west, southwest Hebei in the north, Shandong in the east and Jianghan in the south. Poetry and music are inseparable.