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''Shi Jing'' (), translated variously as the '''''Classic of Poetry''''', the '''''Book of Songs''''' or the '''''Book of Odes''''', is the earliest existing collection of Chinese Poems . It comprises 305 Poem s, some possibly written as early as 1000 BC . The collection is divided into three parts according to their genre, namely ''feng'', ''ya'' and ''song'', with the ''ya'' genre further divided into "small" and "large": The Confucian tradition holds that the collection, one of the '' Wu Jing '', or Five Classics, came to what we have today after the editing of Confucius . The collection was officially acknowledged as a "classic" during the Han Dynasty . Four schools of commentary existed then, namely the Qi (齊), the Lu (魯), the Han (韓), and the Mao (毛) schools. The first two schools did not survive. The Han school only survived partly. The Mao school has became the canonical school of ''Shi Jing'' commentary after the Han Dynasty. As a result, the collection is also sometimes referred to as "Mao Shi" (毛詩). Zheng Xuan 's elucidation on the Mao commentary is also canonical. The 305 poems had to be reconstructed from memory by scholars since the previous Qin Dynasty had Burned The Collection Along With Other Classical Texts . (There are, in fact, a total of 308 poem titles that were reconstructed, but the remaining three poems only have titles without any extant text). The earliest surviving edition of ''Shi Jing'' is a fragmentary one of the Han Dynasty, written on bamboo strips, unearthed at Fuyang . The poems are written in four-character lines. The airs are in the style of folk songs, although the extent to which they are real folk songs or literary imitations is debated. The odes deal with matters of court and Historical subjects, while the hymns blend History , Myth and Religious material. The three major literary figures or styles employed in the poems are ''fu'', ''bi'' and ''xing'': CONTENTS Guo Feng
Xiao Ya
Da Ya
Song
note: alternative divisions may be topical or chronological (Legges): Song, DaYa, XiaoYa, GuoFeng TRANSLATIONS
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