Customs and culture in Airs of the States

The book of songs,as the first collection of poems in china,has given much description of the customs and culture in the era which are called the era of the book of songs.among the poems ,the airs of fifteen stastes are more like live fossil of the splended customs and culture.some of which were passed down in the long history,which most of the others were loaded which dust.This paper tries to find out some related messages about customs and culture of that period and do the best to mend so as to disscover the characteristics of culture in that era through the works of airs of the states.