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《诗经》是中国最早的诗歌总集。《诗经》原本叫《诗》，共有诗歌305首（另外还有6篇有题目无内容，即有目无辭，称为笙诗），因此又称“诗三百”。从汉朝起儒家将其奉为经典，因此称为《诗经》。西汉时，有鲁诗、齐诗、韩诗三家，置博士，为官学。后毛亨、毛苌曾注释《诗经》，因此又称《毛诗》，逐渐成为显学。后三家诗多湮没无闻，独毛诗完存。《诗经》中的诗的作者绝大部分已经无法考证。
本书包括307个单句。
Shi Jing is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, 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 poems, some possibly written as early as 1000 BC. 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 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.