The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems, including 3 1 1 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 collectively called Six Sheng Poems (Nan Chang, Bai Hua, Shu Hua and You Yu).
The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, which collected 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. The pre-Qin people called The Book of Songs "Poetry", or "Poetry 300" or integer "Poetry 300". In the Western Han Dynasty, it was revered as a Confucian classic, called The Book of Songs, which is still in use today. ?
The Book of Songs was written in the Spring and Autumn Period, and was taught by Qi (Shen Pei), Lu (Mao Heng), Han (Han Ying) and Mao (Zhao Renmao) in the Han Dynasty. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, Qi, Lu and Han were all lost, leaving only the Biography of Mao Poetry. Mao poetry prevailed after the Eastern Han Dynasty and has been passed down to this day.
The Book of Songs is China's first monograph on pure literature, which opens up the narrative and lyrical connotation of China's poems and is called "the ancestor of pure literature". It is the earliest collection of poems in China, which determines the rhetorical principles and rhyming principles of Chinese poems, and is called "the ancestor of the collection" and "the ancestor of poetry". It is also a representative of northern literature, yellow river basin literature and civilian literature.