Book of Odes

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The Book of Odes is one of the oldest and most revered classics of Chinese literature, comprising a canonical anthology of ancient poems and songs traditionally attributed to Confucius.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chinese classic text
Confucian classic
poetry anthology
associatedWithDynasty Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED
centralTheme agriculture
ancestral worship
love
moral instruction
ritual propriety
war
compiledFrom court songs
folk songs
ritual hymns
contains eulogies
hymns
poems
songs
countryOfOrigin Ancient China NERFINISHED
dateOfCompilation 1st millennium BCE
genre lyric poetry
hasAlternativeName Book of Songs NERFINISHED
Classic of Poetry NERFINISHED
Odes NERFINISHED
hasChineseName 詩經 NERFINISHED
hasCulturalStatus Chinese national literary heritage
hasInterpretiveTradition Mao Commentary NERFINISHED
Zheng Xuan’s annotations
hasPinyinName Shijing NERFINISHED
hasReligiousRole text for ritual performance
hasSection Airs of the States NERFINISHED
Eulogies
Greater Court Hymns NERFINISHED
Lesser Court Hymns NERFINISHED
hasSubjectMatter daily life in ancient China
relations between ruler and subject
influenced Chinese poetry
Confucian philosophy
East Asian literary tradition
language Classical Chinese
literaryForm four-character lines
numberOfPoems 305
partOf Five Classics NERFINISHED
preservedIn Chinese canon
regardedAs canonical text in Confucianism
one of the oldest existing collections of Chinese poetry
studiedBy Confucian scholars
traditionallyEditedBy Confucius NERFINISHED
usedIn Confucian education
imperial civil service examinations

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