Who compiled The Book of Songs?

The earliest works of The Book of Songs were written in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty. According to the history books, anger was written by Zhou Gongdan. A batch of bamboo slips of Warring States in Tsinghua University in 2008 (referred to as Tsinghua bamboo slips for short) recorded that people celebrated drinking after defeating Li Guo, and the impromptu poem "Cricket" was closely related to the existing "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 is Martin Zhu Lin, which spans about 600 years. There are many opinions about the compilation of The Book of Songs in the past dynasties. There are three main types: the earliest record of Wang Guan's poetry-picking theory appeared in Zuo Zhuan. "Kong Hunting Tour" contains: "The ancient emperor ordered the history to collect ballads to observe the folk customs. In addition, in "History of Eating Goods in Han Dynasty": "Meng Chunyue, people who live in groups are scattered, and pedestrians shake Muduo, they must take the road to collect poems and present them to the Taishi, winning the melody for the emperor to hear. Therefore, the king knows the world without leaving home. "The Zhou court sent envoys to collect folk songs all over the country during the busy farming season, which were collected by Zhou historians to understand the people's feelings. Poetry collectors at that time were called "pedestrians" (see Zuo Zhuan). Liu Xin and Shu also said, "Ask the three generations of Zhou Dynasty, and its director Qin Xuan is a vehicle messenger and a human messenger, who patrolled the road in August and asked for generation language, nursery rhymes and ballads. "The Poems of the Duke and Qing Dynasty said that at that time, in order to" test the beauty and evil of its customs ",the emperor ordered the princes to present poems." "Guoyu Zhou Yu" contains: "You listen to politics, so that the ministers can dedicate poems to the scholars, … learn them and recite them. "Confucius' theory of deleting poems can be found in Historical Records of Confucius' Family:" There are more than 3,000 ancient poems, and when it comes to Confucius, 300 poems can be applied to propriety and righteousness. "It is said that there are 3,000 ancient poems, of which 300 are compiled by Confucius according to the standards of propriety and righteousness, and the Book of Songs is compiled. Confucius in Tang Dynasty, Zhu in Song Dynasty, Zhu Yizun in Ming Dynasty and Wei Yuan in Qing Dynasty were all skeptical. It is recorded in Zuo Zhuan that Confucius had finalized the Book of Songs when he was less than 10 years old. In 544 BC, Lu wrote wind poems for Wu Gongzi, in the same order as the current Book of Songs. At present, it is generally believed that The Book of Songs was collected by the vassal states with the assistance of the Zhou court, and then compiled by historians and musicians. Confucius also participated in this sorting process. There is a saying about the classification of poems in The Book of Songs: "Four beginnings and six meanings." "Four Beginnings" refers to four top poems: Feng, Elegance, and Ode to Six Meanings "refers to" Wind, Elegance, Ode, Fu, Comparison and Glory. " "Style, elegance and praise" are the classification of the Book of Songs according to different music, and "Fu, Bi and Xing" are the manifestations of the Book of Songs. The Book of Songs is mainly composed of four words and miscellaneous words. The division of style, elegance and fu is based on the difference of music. The Wind has collected folk songs from fifteen places, including some places in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei and Shandong (Qi, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qin). Most of them are folk songs in the Yellow River valley, and most of them are polished folk songs, called "Fifteen Kingdoms Wind", with 160 articles, which is the core content of the Book of Songs. "Wind" means country wind and wind ballads. (Fifteen national styles: Nan Zhou, Zhao Nan, Yan [bè i], Yan [yūng], Wei, Wang, Zheng, Qi, Wei, Tang, Qin, Chen, Qi, Cao and Yi [běn])