The Book of Songs contains poems from what period to what period.

1, The Book of Songs * * * contains 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period.

2. Poems quoted from pre-Qin documents are generally within the scope of the existing Book of Songs, and there are very few so-called poems of the Book of Changes, from which we can infer the collection period of the Book of Songs. In the Analects of Confucius, Confucius mentioned "three hundred poems" many times (such as "governing the country and politics" and "Luz").

3, "Historical Records Confucius Family" "350 articles, all sung by Confucius, in order to combine the voices of Shao, Wu, Ya and Song."

4. The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: wind, elegance and ode. "Wind" includes fifteen "National Wind" and one hundred and sixty poems; Elegance includes 3 articles of Elegance1and 74 articles of Xiaoya. Ode includes thirty-one Zhou Song, five Shang Odes and four Truffles.