Daya is the product of the prosperous period of the Zhou Dynasty and the only remaining epic in ancient China. There are different opinions about the creation time of the eighteen pieces of Elegance: Zheng Xuan thinks that What happened to the King of Wen is a poem in the era of literature and martial arts.
Eight Poems of People's Life, from People's Life to Juana, are all poems written by Duke Zhou when he became king. Zhu thought: "it's' elegance' ... this was decided when Duke Zhou made it." But they all think that "Chaya" is a poem in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty. ?
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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.
According to literature and history experts' research, The Book of Songs was written after Zhou Wuwang destroyed the Shang Dynasty (BC 1066).
"Song of Zhou" is the earliest work in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is the work of noble literati. It is mainly composed of ancestral temple music songs and ode to the gods, and some of them describe agricultural production.