The unknown creative background of national style, Qifeng and the East

The unknown East is the ancient poetry of the Book of Songs, with national style. "Unknown East" is a folk song widely circulated in the area of Kyoto (now Linzi, Zibo City, Shandong Province) in the Zhou Dynasty. The purpose of this poem is to reflect the painful life of slaves who were forced to serve hard labor under the cruel exploitation and oppression of slave owners, to expose the class contradictions and the cruelty of the ruling class at that time, to tell the sufferings of the oppressed slaves and to reflect the resentment and resistance of the slave class.