In "The Book of Songs", women often call their loved ones by their names, and it is common to call them "Shi" and "Jun". For example, "Jun" is used to address the beloved in "Wind and Rain", and "Shi" is used to address the beloved in "Gu You Mei".
Era of production.
The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China. The earliest records are from the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and the latest works are from the Spring and Autumn Period, spanning about five to six hundred years. The area of ??occurrence is centered on the Yellow River Basin, extending south to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and is distributed in today's Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Hubei and other places.
Experts on classics and history have determined that the works in the Book of Songs were produced after King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Dynasty (1066 BC).