Take stock of the earliest poems in the world

China is a country of poetry, and the earliest collection of poems is The Book of Songs. Because The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in ancient China, it is also called Shi Mao. The Book of Songs is an important cultural heritage, which contains 305 poems from the early Zhou Dynasty (1 1 century to the 6th century BC), which are divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode. The poems in The Book of Songs are easy to understand, and the language is concise and vivid, which contains rich ancient culture, social history and ideology and morality. It is one of the important milestones and classics in the history of ancient Chinese literature, and it also has a far-reaching influence on the poetry creation of later generations.