The Study of the Creation Time of Poems:Songs of Wei——The Study of the Creation Time of the Poetry in Spring and Autumn Period IX

Ramle Sandals was a satirical poem on the lady which was written by the sewing girl.The Garden Peach was a poem composed by the scholar of Wei(a state in the Zhou Dynasty) who was worried about poverty and starvation.The Climb was a poem created by the young soldier of Wei who was thinking of his parents and older brother.All of the three poems are supposed to have been written at the time when Jin(a state in the Zhou Dynasty) had just destroyed Wei in the sixteenth year of Jin Xian Gong(661 BC).Inside the Plots was a poem created by the mulberry maid who called her companions to go back home together.Cutting the Sandalwood was a song that was sung by lumbermen of Wei.The Field Voles was a satirical poem on Lv Mu Tax(paying taxes according to one's land size),which was written by the commoner of Wei.The above-mentioned three poems are supposed to have been all written in the sixteenth year of Jin Xian Gong(661 BC).The Fen River was a poem composed by the lower aristocrat of Jin who satirized the senior official of Jin on not choosing the right person for the job.It is believed to have been written after the first year of Jin Cheng Gong(607 BC).