China can have an exact historical record, and the history recognized by the world is the Zhou Dynasty. (The previous Xia and Shang Dynasties were almost ancient myths, which were still confusing and inaccurate in the eyes of western and Japanese historians. )
The Book of Songs began in the Western Zhou Dynasty.
China's poems originated from rhythmic songs such as weightlifting and persuasion issued by ancient ancestors in their labor. For example, there are folk songs such as "broken bamboo", "continued bamboo", "flying soil" and "chasing meat" in "Wu Yue Chun Qiu", which is said to be a poem in the ancient Yanhuang period, and its content records people's labor scenes at that time.
With the development of social history, during the 500 years from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (BC 1 1 century to the 7th century BC), China's ancient poetry has made remarkable achievements. The Book of Songs, produced in this historical period, contains 305 poems, which is the oldest collection of poems in the history of China literature.
The following is the book of songs introduced by Encyclopedia:
The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China. Poetry with a revenue of about 500 years from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the 6th century). (In addition, there are six poems with no content, that is, no words, which are called 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. The area involved is mainly the Yellow River Basin, starting from Shanxi and eastern Gansu in the west, southwest Hebei Province in the north, Shandong in the east and Jianghan Basin in the south. Poetry is inseparable from music.