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Shi (Book of Songs), or Shi Jing (Chinese:诗经), China's first collection of poems made its debut in the 7th century BC. It included epics, satirical poems, ballads, love songs, battle songs, odes, seasonal rhymes, and work chants. The book appeared a few hundred years before the famous “Epic of Homer” of the ancient Greeks, and marked the starting point of China’s literary development. (More ...)