The source of China's realistic poetry is

Book of Songs.

According to the website of China Ancient Poetry, the source of China's realistic poetry is The Book of Songs. The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poems and the earliest collection of poems in China. Collected 365,438+065,438+0 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, among which 6 poems are Sheng poems, that is, they have only titles but no contents, and are called Liusheng Poems, Nan Tong, Baihua, Huashu and Huashu.