What poetic tradition did The Book of Songs create in China?

The Book of Songs initiated the tradition of China's realistic poetry.

The Book of Songs mainly describes the social reality of the Western Zhou Dynasty for hundreds of years. As the earliest collection of poems in China, The Book of Songs truly, profoundly and extensively reflects the life, feelings and hopes of the working people at the lower level, and reveals the essence and contradictions of the society at that time with amazing artistic generalization, thus laying the foundation for the realistic creation tradition of China's lyric poems in later generations and creating the realistic poetry tradition in China.