The Book of Songs (translated into English) is the earliest collection of poems in China, among which the earliest works were written in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is the source of China's realistic poetry. This book mainly collects 305 works from the early Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century). In addition, there are six poems with topics but no content, that is, no words, which are called sheng poems, also known as "Three Hundred Poems". The pre-Qin dynasty was called "Poetry", or the integer was called "Poetry 300". In the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic, formerly known as The Book of Songs, which has been in use ever since. Mao Heng in Han Dynasty annotated The Book of Songs, so it was also called Mao Shi. Most of the authors of the poems in The Book of Songs cannot be verified. It involves the Yellow River Basin, starting from Shaanxi and eastern Gansu in the west, reaching southwest Hebei in the north, Shandong in the east and Jianghan Basin in the south. Poetry is inseparable from music.
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