What is China's earliest literary work?

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in ancient China, mainly concentrated in the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. Historical Records Confucius Family said: "The ancients wrote more than 3,000 poems. Speaking of Confucius, it is important to get rid of it and take something that can be applied to etiquette. ..... 350 articles, all written by Confucius. " It is generally believed that the existing Book of Songs was basically edited by Confucius. What is important is that many poems in The Book of Songs contain scientific and technological knowledge at that time, involving phenology, zoology and botany, geoscience and astronomy. In astronomy, some chapters in the Book of Songs have already mentioned fire (heart), dustpan, bucket, stability (room, wall), ang, bi, Shen, Niu, female and so on. , as the coordinate system of the ancient celestial sphere, and the record of Tianhan (galaxy). [2] It is particularly important that there is a solar eclipse in the Book of Songs, and in Xiaoya at the Turn of October, there is "at the turn of October, the moon is bright, there is food on the day, the cave is ugly, the moon is micro, and this day is micro", which is the earliest solar eclipse recorded in ancient literature. Of course, The Book of Songs is a literary work, not a scientific work, and only involves scientific and technological knowledge at most. Moreover, Confucius did not compile The Book of Songs because it contained scientific and technological knowledge. However, in order to compile such a book with rich ancient scientific and technological knowledge, Confucius himself could not have no certain scientific and technological knowledge (at that time, the scientific and technological knowledge was already quite high), and a certain degree of textual research was needed when sorting out the scientific and technological knowledge.