The Book of Songs is a collection of poems produced at the end of slave society in China more than 2,500 years ago. It is the beginning of China's ancient poetry and the earliest collection of poems. There are 305 ancient poems from 1 1 century BC to the 6th century BC, and there are 6 poems of Sheng, which reflect the social outlook of about 500 years from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period.
The Book of Songs is China's first anthology of poems, which was first recorded in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and came into being at the latest in the Spring and Autumn Period. The whole era of The Book of Songs spans about five or six hundred years.