What is China's earliest collection of poems?

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China, with 305 poems in total.

Poems such as style, elegance and ode in The Book of Songs mostly originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The Book of Songs is mainly composed of four-character poems, with repeated chapters and sentences, free rhyme, and narrative lyricism by means of fu, bi and xing.

There are fifteen national styles in Feng, most of which are folk poems, accounting for 160; "Elegance" includes "Elegance" and "Elegance", most of which are aristocratic works and Zhou Dynasty epics, accounting for 105; "Ode" includes Zhou Song, Lu Song and Shang Song, most of which are banquet songs, with 40 articles in total.

Wind is a poem created by ancient working people in their working life, which is essentially composed of narrative poems and lyric poems. There are satirical poems, love poems, sad poems and so on.

Satire poems describe backward, negative and reactionary things in life by teasing and mocking, which is strongly political and combative. Such as New Taiwan Province and Squirrel and Mouse.

Mourning poems are poems that express the poet's grief and indignation, such as Feng Wei Shuo.

Love poems are poems about love. This paper mainly describes the love and love life of men and women, in order to express the emotions and feelings inspired by the love between young men and women. For example, there are many excellent works in Nan Zhou and Zhao Nan.

The existing Book of Songs was edited by Confucius. Around the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, this book of songs with more than 300 articles became a popular version.

"Elegance" is also a kind of court melody, which has the characteristics of elegance, justice and peace. The lyrics in Elegance and Xiaoya are all sung in this music.

"My fair lady, a gentleman is a good gentleman" comes from The Book of Songs.