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The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated variously as the Book of Songs, Book of Odes, or simply known as the Odes or Poetry (詩; Shī), is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC.
Through poetry, rites and music, Confucian education sought to teach moral subtleties – easily memorised in the form of singing, The Book of Songs helped to lay down rules for behaviour.
Shijing 詩經, the Book of Songs, also known as Maoshi 毛詩, is one of the Confucian Classics. It is a collection of three different types of songs originating in the Shang and the early and middle Zhou periods.
The Book of Songs is China's earliest collection of poems and the beginning of China's poetry traditions. The Book of Songs was called Poetry or 300 Poems in the pre-Qin period. In the Han Dynasty, Poetry was listed as a Confucian classic and thus was called Classic of Poetry.
The Book of Songs 詩經. An early collection of Chinese poems, with English translation by James Legge
The Book of Songs, collection of verse by Heinrich Heine, published as Buch der Lieder in 1827. The work contains all his poetry to the time of publication and features bittersweet, self-ironic verses about unrequited love that employ Romantic sensibilities but are at the same time suspicious of
Joseph R. Allen's new edition of The Book of Songs restores Arthur Waley's definitive English translations to the original order and structure of the two-thousand-year-old Chinese text.
The Shijing, or Book of Odes (aka Classic of Poetry, Book of Songs, etc.) is the fountainhead of the Chinese literary tradition.
The book of songs : the ancient Chinese classic of poetry. [Nachdr. d. Ausg. New York] 1960.
Shijing or Shih-ching, translated as the Book of Songs or the Book of Odes, is the earliest anthology of Chinese poetry and is considered one of the Confucian classics. The Book of Songs includes 305 poems that date from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period.