Series of Essence of Chinese Traditional Culture: Selected Poems of the Book of Songs and Poetic Paintings (English-Chinese Contrast)

Author: Xu Yuanchong (Translated Poetry)
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: The Book of Songs is a collection of Chinese poems, compiled around the middle of the 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 - 25 AD) and is collectively known as the "Six Classics" alongside the Book of Documents, the Book of Rites, the Book of Music, the Book of Changes, and the Spring and Autumn Annals.