Historically, Chinese literature had centered on verse, except for historical pieces and pieces about the philosophy of religion, and the oldest anthology of Chinese poems is "Shi Jing", which is one of the Five Classic Texts of Confucianism.
歴史や宗教哲学のものを除けば韻文が中心だった中国文学の歴史の中で、五経のひとつとして中国最古の詩編『詩経』が生まれた。