Shijing contains 305 works dating 11th-7th centuries BC. Majority from Western Zhou in Central Plains. Divided into Airs of States, Court Hymns, Eulogies of Zhou, Lu, Shang. Airs are folk songs on love, war, farming, satire. Hymns praise Zhou founders, ancestors, harvests. 95% lines in four-syllable meter with caesura. Poems use repetition, variation, parallelism. Performed with bells, drums, stone chimes. Rhymes reveal Old Chinese phonology. Collected by Zhou officials to gauge people's feelings for Heavenly Mandate. Tradition attributes editing to Confucius from 3000 poems. Mao tradition became standard text by Eastern Han. Used for Confucian education, allegory, politics. Folk songs polished by royal court literati. Many from female perspectives. Structure: 160 Airs, 105 Hymns, 40 Eulogies.