The Book of Songs contains 305 poems, which are divided into three categories?

There are three kinds of editors in The Book of Songs: style, elegance and ode. "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 musical song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and noble ancestral temples, which is divided into ode to, and ode to Shang. The Book of Songs is a collection of poems produced at the end of slave society in China. It is the beginning of China's ancient poetry and the earliest collection of poems. We collected 305 ancient poems from BC 1 1 century to the 6th century BC, and 6 poems of Sheng with only titles but no poems, which reflected the social outlook of about 500 years from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period.