Yan Jiaming: Is The Book of Songs China's first collection of poems?

The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, with 365,438+065,438+0 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, also known as "300 poems". The pre-Qin dynasty was called "Poetry", or the integer was called "Poetry 300". In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which has been in use ever since.

The Book of Songs was compiled in the Spring and Autumn Period, with 305 articles. Probably works from the early Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, produced in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Hubei and other places. According to "Historical Records" and other records, it was deleted by Confucius, which is doubtful. Among them, folk poems are said to be collected by the Zhou royal family. It's called "collecting wind" The Book of Songs has a profound influence on the literary development of China for more than two thousand years, and it is a very precious ancient historical material.