Study on Canonization of Poem from Perspective of Its Early Dissemination

The unique ways of dissemination of poem are the important links in its process of ethic canonization.Collection and contribution of poems as national systems are bottom-up dissemination of poem,which elevated poem from villages to the holy shrines.The ritualization of poem,marks the transformation of poem from country ballads to ritual hymns,and in this top-down dissemination poem was assigned instructive meanings to direct the social value orientation.Writing poem and quotation of poem in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period applied poem widely to all aspects of social life,the classical poem therefore became a tool of communication in political life.All these laid solid foundation for its further canonization.