Introduction to The Book of Songs (about 100 words)

The Book of Songs, also known as Poems, is the earliest collection of poems in China. It contains 305 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. Poems in The Book of Songs are originally lyric poems with music, which are divided into three categories according to the nature of original music. They were honored as Confucian classics in the Western Han Dynasty and were originally called The Book of Songs.