How many poems are included in the earliest collection of poetry in China, the Book of Songs

A total of 305 poems.

The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poems in Chinese history. The "Book of Songs" was originally called "Poems", with a total of 305 poems (in addition, there are 6 poems with titles but no content, that is, there are no words, called six poems of Sheng. There is no content of Nanyi, Baihua, Huaxiao, Youkang, Chongwu and Youyi), so it is also called "Three Hundred Poems" and "Three Hundred Articles".

Since the Han Dynasty, Confucianism has regarded it as a classic, so it is called the Book of Songs. (The official use of the Book of Songs should start in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty - Qu Wanli). Mao Heng and Mao Chang of the Han Dynasty once commented on the Book of Songs, so it is also called "Mao's Poems".

The authors of the poems in the Book of Songs are vast majority of impossible to verify. The area involved is mainly the Yellow River Basin, from Shanxi and eastern Gansu in the west, to the southwest of Hebei Province in the north, to Shandong in the east, and to the Jianghan River Basin in the south. It collected 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, about 500 years, six of which had only titles.

In the Western Han Dynasty, it was revered as a Confucian classic, and it was one of the "Five Classics" respected by Confucianism, which was originally called the "Book of Songs" and has been used to this day. **It is divided into three parts: wind, elegance and song, of which "wind" is a local folk song, with 15 national winds, a total of 160 songs; "Ya" is mainly a court song, divided into big Ya and small Ya, a total of one hundred and five; "Ode" is mainly a temple song, with 40 songs. The main expressions are endowment, comparison, and rejuvenation.

"Fu" is to lay out (perfunctory and straightforward), "than" is to say, "xing" is to foretell other things to cause the words to be sung. The highest ideological and artistic value of the "Book of Songs" is the folk song, "the hungry sing about their food, and the laborer sings about their work", and "Cutting Tan", "Shuo Mouse" and "Hooligans" are the representative works of "wind". The Book of Songs has had a profound impact on the development of poetry in later generations and has become the source of the realist tradition of classical literature in China.

The Book of Poetry circulating in the world today is a collection of Mao's poems passed down by Mao Heng and Mao Chang.

The Book of Songs is an ancient book of the pre-Qin period in China, and it was not called the Book of Poetry in the early days, but "poems" or "three hundred poems".

The Book of Poetry is the first collection of poetry in China, which includes 305 complete poems.

The Book of Poetry is the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry, the earliest collection of poems, a collection of poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period (11th century BC to the 6th century BC), a total of 311 articles, of which 6 are sheng poems, that is, only titles, no content, called six sheng poems ("Nanyi", "Baihua", "Hua Huang", "You Geng", "Chongqiu", "You Yi"), reflecting the social outlook of about 500 years from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty to the late Zhou Dynasty.

The author of the Book of Songs is unknown, and most of them can no longer be verified, and it is said that it was collected by Yin Jifu and compiled by Confucius. The Book of Songs was called "Poems" in the pre-Qin period, or its whole number was called "Three Hundred Poems". In the Western Han Dynasty, it was revered as a Confucian classic, originally called the "Book of Songs", and has been used to this day.

The Book of Songs is divided into three parts: "Wind", "Ya" and "Song". The technique is divided into "Fu", "Than" and "Xing". "Wind" is a ballad from all over the Zhou Dynasty.

"Ya" is the positive sound of the Zhou people, and it is divided into "Xiao Ya" and "Da Ya". "Song" is the music song of the Zhou royal court and the noble temple, and is divided into "Zhou Song", "Lu Song" and "Shang Song".

Year of generation:

The Book of Poetry is the first collection of poetry in China, the earliest record is the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the latest works produced are the Spring and Autumn Period, spanning about five or six hundred years. The production area is centered on the Yellow River Basin, south to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and distributed in present-day Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Hubei and other places. The works in the Book of Songs were produced after King Wu of Zhou destroyed Shang (1066 BC).

2. "Song of Zhou" was the earliest in the era, produced in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and was a work of aristocratic literati, mainly based on the music songs of the temple and the music of the gods, and some of them also described agricultural production.

3. "Daya" is a product of the prosperous period of the Zhou Dynasty and is the only surviving epic in ancient China. However, they all believe that "Zhengdaya" is a poem in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

4. "Xiao Ya" was produced in the late years of the Western Zhou Dynasty and after the eastward migration.

5. "Lu Song" and "Shang Song" were both produced after the eastward migration of the Zhou dynasty (770 BC).