Dec 28, 2009
The earliest repository of Chinese verse, the Shih Ching (or Book of Poetry or Book of Songs or Book of Order) contains 305 poems of both folk and court origins. The court poems are more or less ceremonial in character, designed to be sung at sacrifices, to accompany the dances and feasts in honor of dynastic ancestors, or to adorn such formal occasions as receptions, banquets, chases, and archery contests. The folk songs comprise love lyrics of various kinds, epithalamiums, complaints, satires, elegies, and georgics.
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