Selected Songs from the Book of Songs and Poetic Paintings (English-Chinese Bilingual Edition)

Author: Xu Yuanchong
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: The Book of Songs is a collection of Chinese poems, compiled around the mid-Spring and Autumn period, approximately the 6th century BC, roughly contemporary with the Homeric Epics of ancient Greece. Initially known as Poetry, Three Hundred Poems, or The Three Hundred, it was revered as a Confucian classic during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC–AD 25) and, together with the Book of Documents, Book of Rites, Book of Music, Book of Changes, and Spring and Autumn Annals, was collectively known as the "Six Classics."