The earliest collection of poems in ancient China is

The earliest collection of poems in ancient China was The Book of Songs.

The Book of Songs is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry and the earliest collection of poems. It collects poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century), including ***3 1 1, among which 6 poems are filled.

The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: style, elegance and ode. Techniques are divided into Fu, Bi and Xing. "Wind" is a ballad of Zhou Dynasty. Elegant music is the official music of Zhou people, which is divided into harmony and elegance. Ode is a music song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and aristocratic ancestral temples, which is divided into, and Shang songs.

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.