The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, also known as "300 poems". In the pre-Qin period, it was called the Book of Songs or the Book of Songs 300 by integers, and it was honored as a Confucian classic in the Western Han Dynasty, and then it was called the Book of Songs, which is still in use today.
The Book of Songs was written in the 6th century BC. It collected 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period for more than 500 years, and another 6 poems were full of words.
Inherit history
It is said that there are as many as 3,000 poems handed down in the Spring and Autumn Period, and now only 3 1 1 is left (six of them are poems without eyes). After Confucius compiled The Book of Songs, Xia Zi, one of the "Ten Philosophers of Confucius" and one of the seventy-two sages, was the earliest recorded inheritor. He has the deepest understanding of poetry, so he passed it on.
There were three poets in the early Han Dynasty, namely Shen Peigong of Lu, Gu Sheng of Qi and Han Ying of Yan. Qi's poems died in the Three Kingdoms Wei Dynasty, Lu's poems died in the Western Jin Dynasty, and Han's poems were still circulated in the Tang Dynasty, with only 10 volume left. The Book of Songs circulated today is a poem by Mao Gong.