Book of Songs

Author: Confucius of the Spring and Autumn Period
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Publishing Date: 2004-07-01
Features: ▼Complete Content ▼Sandalwood Aroma ▼Compact and Lightweight ▼Original Illustrations ▼Portable ——"The reeds are green, white dew turns to frost. The person I adore is on the far shore." This is the love declaration left to future generations by the Book of Songs. With just this one line, it has made the Book of Songs celebrated for centuries and benefited all ages. As the first collection of poems in China, the Book of Songs is ranked at the top of the "Four Books and Five Classics." Wen Yiduo once said, "The era of 'Three Hundred Poems' was indeed a great era, and our culture was largely shaped from this early beginning. Once culture was established, literature was established too. From then on, for 2,000 years, poetry — lyric poetry — remained the orthodox type of literature in China." Undoubtedly, the Book of Songs can be considered a monumental milestone in China's 2,000-year cultural history. —The Book of Songs was originally called Po, and it was said that the royal court at the time sent people to collect folk songs from the countryside specifically to assess the customs......