The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in the history of China literature. The Book of Songs is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry and the earliest collection of poems. It collects poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), **3 1 1, among which six poems are Sheng poems, that is, only the title has no content, which is called Six Sheng Poems.
At first, it was only called "Poems" or "Three Hundred Poems", and later Confucianism honored it as a classic and called it "The Book of Songs". This anthology was compiled in the Spring and Autumn Period, and included 500 years of poetry creation from the Western Zhou Dynasty (1 1 century BC) to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (7th century BC). These works (mainly folk songs) widely and profoundly reflect the reality of social life and class struggle in the Zhou Dynasty.
The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.
The creator of The Book of Songs:
Most of the authors of The Book of Songs failed the exam. No matter whether it is folk creation or literati creation, there is basically no exact name left, and only a few articles can determine the author according to special records. The period of his creation cannot be verified, and only a range can be roughly indicated. Ode to Ya is probably from the early Western Zhou Dynasty, a few of them are from the late Western Zhou Dynasty, a few of them and Guofeng are from the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and most of them are from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the early Spring and Autumn Period.