The Book of Songs The Book of Songs is my country's first collection of poems. It contains 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period over 500 years. It is also known as the "Three Hundred Poems". In the pre-Qin Dynasty, it was called "Poetry", or the whole number was called "Poetry Three Hundred". It was revered as a Confucian classic during the Western Han Dynasty and was first called the Book of Songs, which is still used today.