Book of Odes
Description:... The Book of Odes, or Shi Jing, is a 2008 release, English Edition, Many of the 305 Poems in the book deal with the lives of the common people, their daily occupations, their Joys, and sorrows, their hard work and duties in war. Then in the Warring States Period the state of Chu in the South produced a great poet: Qu Yuan (340-278 A.D.). He was the first Chinese poet whose name we know. When he saw that his state was approaching ruin and he could do nothing to save it, he drowned himself in the Miluo River.
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