Book of Song

China's Book of Songs In China "poetic education" in the original meaning is learning The Book of Songs. This is the first comprehensive anthology of Chinese poems including 305 poems of the Zhou Dynasty (1122-256 B.C.) (Churchill, R.). It was originally called Shi (Poems) and Shi Sanbai (Three Hundred Poems). Each poem in The Book of Songs was set to music and could be sung. The compilers classified the 305 poems into folk songs, ceremonial songs, …

…Juyi, Du Mu and Liu Zongyuan, are read more than the others by the Chinese themselves. Four: Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juy are widely known in translation in many lands outside China. Thus the translation of the entire anthology, which includes the most representative, and some of the most beautiful, Chinese poems, is of immense value to those who wish to acquire a general idea of what Chinese poetry really is.