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What did the wind in The Book of Songs create in China?

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

The Book of Songs is the beginning of China's ancient poetry. It was originally called "Poetry" or "Poetry 300". It collected 305 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (1 1 century to the sixth century), among which 6 poems were Sheng poems, that is, they only had titles but no contents, and were called Sheng.

Confucius once summarized the purpose of the Book of Songs as "innocence" and educated his disciples to read the Book of Songs as their standard of speech and action. Among the pre-Qin philosophers, many people quoted The Book of Songs, such as Mencius, Xunzi, Mozi, Zhuangzi and Han Feizi. Quote the sentences in the Book of Songs to enhance your persuasiveness. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, The Book of Songs was regarded as a classic by Confucianism and became one of the six classics and five classics.

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 and is known as the encyclopedia of life in ancient society.