The author of "Picking Wei" is anonymous. Judging from the content of "Picking Wei", it should be a work of soldiers defending their country and returning their labor. The author of The Book of Songs Picking Wei was anonymous in the pre-Qin period.

Xiaoya Cai Wei is a poem in The Book of Songs, the first collection of poems in ancient China. This poem, about returning home, sings the hard life and homesickness of the soldiers who joined the army. This poem consists of six chapters, each with eight sentences.

The first five sections focus on the hardships of life, strong homesickness and the reasons why they can't go home for a long time, revealing that soldiers have both the pleasure of defending the enemy and the pain of fighting, showing their desire for peace.

Debate on the compilation of The Book of Songs;

1, Poems on the Crown

The earliest record appeared in Zuo Zhuan. "Kong Hunting Tour" contains: "The ancient emperor ordered the history to collect ballads to observe the folk customs."

In addition, in "History of Eating Goods in Han Dynasty": "Meng Chunyue, people who live in groups are scattered, and pedestrians shake Muduo, they must take the road to collect poems and present them to the Taishi, winning the melody for the emperor to hear. Therefore, you know the world without leaving home. " During the slack season, the Zhou court sent special envoys to collect folk songs all over the country, which were collected by Zhou historians to understand the people's feelings. Poetry collectors at that time were called "pedestrians" (see Zuo Zhuan).

Liu Xin and Shu also said, "Ask the three generations of Zhou Dynasty, and its director Qin Xuan is a car envoy and a human envoy. He patrolled the road in August and asked for generations of words and children's songs."

2, or offer a poem to say

At that time, in order to "test the beauty and evil of its customs", the emperor ordered his ministers to present poems. "Zhou Yu in Mandarin" says: "The emperor listens to politics and makes officials and ministers offer poems, songs, lessons, poems and chants to his disciples."

3. Confucius's theory of deleting poems

This statement can be found in Historical Records Confucius Family: "There are more than 3,000 ancient poems. When it comes to Confucius, we can take 350 poems that can be applied to etiquette and justice." It is said that there are 3,000 ancient poems, of which 300 were compiled by Confucius according to the standard of propriety and righteousness, and the book of songs was compiled. Confucius in Tang Dynasty, Zhu in Song Dynasty, Zhu Yizun in Ming Dynasty and Wei Yuan in Qing Dynasty were all skeptical.

It is recorded in Zuo Zhuan that Confucius had finalized the Book of Songs when he was less than 10 years old. In 544 BC, Lu wrote wind poems for Wu Gongzi, in the same order as the current Book of Songs. Confucius once said in The Analects of Confucius Zi Han: "I will go back to Shandong, and then I will be happy, elegant and eulogize." It can be seen that maybe Confucius was just joking about this poem.

At present, it is generally believed that The Book of Songs was collected by the vassal states with the assistance of the Zhou court, and then compiled by historians and musicians. Confucius also participated in the process of sorting out.