Shàonán (召南) is one of the fifteen regional sections of the Shījīng (Book of Songs), the earliest existing collection of Chinese poetry, compiled around the 11th–7th centuries BCE. It consists of 25 poems traditionally associated with the southern part of the ancient Shào fiefdom—located in present-day southern Shaanxi and northern Hubei—and reflects local customs, courtly life, and natural imagery of that region during the early Zhou dynasty.

The two characters together form a proper noun: 召 (Shào) refers to the feudal state, while 南 (nán) means 'south', indicating its geographical designation within the Shào domain. Unlike ordinary compound words, 召南 functions exclusively as a historical-literary term and never appears in modern daily speech. It is studied primarily in classical Chinese literature courses and scholarly discussions of early Chinese poetry and cultural history.