The nature of The Book of Songs (Shih Ching詩經) can be characterized as lyrical narrative poetry, with narrative as its main body and lyricism as its outer appearance. This article aims to focus on these two aspects of this great Chinese classic, analyzing the narrative focalization as embodied in it; how it uses various perspectives to focus or de-focus the main themes. The ultimate goal of this paper is to investigate the role that The Book of Songs plays in Chinese narrative tradition, and to open another horizon to look into the thorny issue of ambiguity in its meaning through the analysis of narrative focalization.