Is The Book of Poetry the source of Chinese Romantic Poetry?

The Book of Poetry is not the source of Chinese Romantic poetry.

The Book of Poetry is the source of Chinese realist poetry.

The Book of Poetry is the earliest collection of poetry in ancient China. Originally called "Poems" or "Poems 300", it collects poems from the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (11th to 6th centuries BC), and contains 311 poems, of which 6 are sung poems, i.e., poems with only one psalm. The six psalms, known as the Six Psalms of the Psalms (Nanxin, Baihua, Huaibi, Yukang, Chongwu, and Yuyi), reflect the social landscape of the early Zhou Dynasty to the late Zhou Dynasty, a period of about five hundred years.

Confucius once summarized the purpose of the Book of Songs as "no evil" and taught his disciples to read the Book of Songs as a standard of speech and conduct. Among the pre-Qin scholars, there were many who quoted from the Book of Songs, such as Mencius, Xunzi, Mozi, Zhuangzi, and Hanfeizi, who quoted sentences from the Book of Songs to enhance their persuasive power when they were making their arguments. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Book of Poetry was regarded as a classic by Confucianism and became one of the Six Classics and the Five Classics.

The Book of Songs is rich in content, reflecting all aspects of labor and love, war and corvée, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and banquets, and even celestial phenomena, geomorphological features, animals, and plants, etc. It is a mirror of the social life of the Zhou Dynasty, and has been hailed as an encyclopedia of life in ancient society.