摘要
The"Book of Songs"(诗经)(shi jing)is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs from antiquity.The verses in the book are so beautiful that they have been read by Chinese people from generation to generation.Compiled more than 2,500 years ago,it mentions more than 130 kinds of plants.Liu Congkang,deputy director of Publishing Center for Science&Technology and Children under the Wuhan Publishing House.
