The Book of Songs is the earliest one in China.

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in China. The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, with 365,438+065,438+0 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, also known as "300 poems". The pre-Qin dynasty was called the Book of Songs, or it was called the Book of Songs 300 by its integer. 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. The Book of Songs is a collection of poems produced at the end of slave society in China. It is the beginning of China's ancient poetry and the earliest collection of poems, which collected 305 ancient poems from 1 1 century BC to the 6th century BC. In addition, there are six poems with titles and no content, that is, six poems without words. No content is Nanchang, Bai Hua, Shu Hua, Youkang, Chongwu and You Yi. It reflects the social outlook of about 500 years from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. The author of The Book of Songs is unknown. It was collected by Yin Jifu and edited by Confucius. At first, it was just called "Poetry" or "Poetry 300". By the Western Han Dynasty, it was honored as a Confucian classic before it was called The Book of Songs. There are three kinds of editors in The Book of Songs: style, elegance and ode. "Wind" is a ballad of Zhou Dynasty. Elegant music is the official music of Zhou people, which is divided into harmony and elegance. Ode is a musical song used for sacrificial rites in Zhou and noble ancestral temples, which is divided into ode to, and ode to Shang. The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting labor and love, war and corvee, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and feasting, and even astronomical phenomena, landforms, animals and plants. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty.