The longest is the Song of the Yue Boatman , a short song transcribed phonetically in Chinese characters in 528 BC .
The longest included , with a Chinese version , in the Garden of Stories compiled by Liu Xiang five centuries later .
The longest is the Song of the Yue Boatman , a short song transcribed phonetically in Chinese characters in 528 BC and included , with a Chinese version , in the Garden of Stories compiled by Liu Xiang five centuries later .