Description

Shi jing is a poetic song collection from the pre-Qin period of China. As Confucius edited and arranged the songs, it became one of the six Confucius classics. During the early Western Han (206 BCE‒8 CE) there were three different traditions of transmission of the text, called “the three-school poetry.” They were the tradition of Yan, the transmission of which is credited to Han Ying (floreat circa 175 BCE); Qi, credited to Yuan Gu (floreat circa 150 BCE); and Lu, credited to Shen Pei (floreat circa 200 BCE). There ...