The Book of Songs is the source of China's fine tradition of classical poetry.

China's oldest poetry collection, The Book of Songs, is a realistic poetry collection. It contains 305 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, that is, around1/kloc-0-600 BC, among which 6 poems are full of poems, and there are only topics but no poems, so it is also called "Poems 300". In four or five hundred years, there were only folk songs (wind), literati works (elegance) and gods (ode). According to the use and music, it can be divided into three parts: wind, elegance and ode, in which wind refers to folk songs from all over the country, elegance is court music, and ode is dance music used by Zhou Tianzi and princes to worship ancestral temples. The Book of Songs is mainly characterized by Fu, Bi and Xing. Among them, Qi is called Fu; The metaphor is called ratio; Let's talk about something else first to arouse what we are singing. The expression of The Book of Songs can be divided into six meanings: Fu, Bi, Xing, Feng, Ya and Song. The Book of Songs is mainly composed of four words and miscellaneous words.