On Poetic Views of Officials of Library in the Four Branches of Literature

The poetic part of General Catalog of Complete Library in the Four Branches of Literature collected 147 title catalogs of A Book of Songs. In the abstracts, the officials of library in the four branches of literature stress the status of A Book of Songs as a classical Confucian work and oppose any deletion or change of the book. Moreover, they hold that people should absorb any thing of it. In addition, they strongly object any interpretation of the book from the perspective of literature.