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The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of poetry in my country, collecting 305 poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period over 500 years. In the pre-Qin Dynasty, it was called "Shi", or the whole number was called "Poetry Three Hundred" or "Three Hundred Chapters". It was revered as a Confucian classic during the Han Dynasty and was called the Book of Songs, which is still in use today. The Book of Songs marks the first peak of Chinese poetry creation. Confucius once summarized the purpose of the "Book of Songs" as "innocence" and taught his disciples to read the "Book of Songs", which was regarded as a classic by Confucianism and became one of the "Six Classics" and the "Five Classics". On the basis of inheriting the excellent results of previous studies on the Book of Songs, this book accurately interprets the theme and intention of each poem, and clearly annotates each chapter and sentence, so that readers can appreciate the simplicity and beauty of the Book of Songs and resonate with the emotions of the ancients.