Deleting a poem, pronounced shān shīι, is a Chinese character, which means that Confucius deleted the poem. According to the historical records. Confucius family. Historical records of Confucius' family. It is said that there are more than 3,000 ancient poems, and 300 poems that can be applied to etiquette and righteousness have been removed, all of which were sung by Confucius in order to combine martial arts with elegant sounds. Later generations took Sima Qian closer to ancient times, so what he said must be well-founded, so we should believe it more. However, there are also skeptics. For example, Tang Kong said in "Poems": "History books say that before Confucius, there were many poems, and the poems cited in the case books were seen by many people, but there were few dead people, so Confucius couldn't afford nine places, and Ma Tan had more than 3,000 ancient poems, which is not credible."