Shijing

China

Shijing is a town in Henan Province, China. It should not be confused with the Classic of Poetry, also known as the Shijing, which is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry.

The Classic of Poetry comprises 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC. It is one of the "Five Classics" traditionally said to have been edited by Confucius, and it has been studied and memorized by scholars in China and neighboring countries over two millennia. It is also a rich source of chengyu that remain part of learned discourse and everyday language in modern Chinese, and since the Qing dynasty its rhyme patterns have been analysed in the study of Old Chinese phonology.

No further details about the town of Shijing are available in the source material.

Sources

  1. Classic of Poetry

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