Liber carminum^[1] (Sinice 詩經 Shījīng) est corpus carminum ritualium et vulgarium Sinarum priscorum a Confucio eiusque discipulis editum, quod in ordine Confuciano quinque librorum est inscriptum.

Carmina quae in libro Carminum comprehenduntur quattuor in partes sunt divisa (nominibus a P. Lacharme conversis):

• Koue-Fong (國風, in variis Sinae regnis decantatae cantilenae)
• Siao-Ya (小雅, quod rectum est sed inferiore ordine)
• Ta-Ya (大雅, quod rectum est superiore ordine)
• Song (頌, imperatorum Tcheou parentales cantus)

Editiones et versiones

• 1830 : Julius Mohl, ed., Confucii Chi-king, sive Liber carminum ex Latina P. Lacharme interpretatione. Stutgardiae: sumptibus J. G. Cottae (Latine) Textus
• 1871 : James Legge, ed. et interpr., The Chinese Classics vol. 4 i-ii: The first part of the She-king ... The second, third and fourth parts of the She-king. Hongcongi: Lane, Crawford & Co. (Sinice, Anglice) pars i pars ii
• 1919 : Marcel Granet, interpr., Fêtes et chansons anciennes de la Chine. Lutetiae: Bibliothèque de l’école des hautes études, 1919 (Francogallice) Textus; versio Anglica 1932
• 1950 : Bernhard Karlgren, ed. et interpr., The Book of Odes: Chinese Text, Transcription and Translation. Holmiae: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 1950 (Sinice, Anglice) Textus; versio separatim duobus voluminibus edita i, ii

Eruditio

• Edouard Biot, "Recherches sur les mœurs des anciens Chinois d'après le Che-king" in Journal asiatique 4a ser. vol. 2 (1843) pp. 307-355; versio Anglica 1871
• W. A. C. H. Dobson, "Linguistic Evidence and the Dating of the Book of Songs" in T'oung Pao vol. 51 (1964) pp. 322–334 JSTOR
• Martin Kern, "The Odes in excavated manuscripts" in M. Kern, ed., Text and Ritual in Early China (Seattli: University of Washington Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-295-98562-6) pp. 149–193

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