Ancient Chinese Poems

The she ching is one of the earliest, perhaps the earliest, surviving collection of chinese poetry. Traditionally said to have been compiled by confucius, but i think modern scholars dispute that authorship claim. The poem seems to be spoken by a court official living in the east who is apparently lamenting that once he had it great and he lived a life of luxury,. But now he is in the east, he is inthe eastern states, and he has really hit the skids. Times are tough in the eastern states.