Poetry originated from ancient social life and is a rhythmic and emotional language form resulting from labor production, sexual love, primitive religion, etc. "Shang Shu·Yu Shu" records: "Poetry expresses aspirations, songs sing words, the sound lasts forever, and the rhythm is harmonious."
The heyday of ancient poetry was in the Tang Dynasty, and now there are Tang poetry and Song lyrics.
Chinese classical poetry is one of the most prominent representatives of Chinese culture, and its production can be traced back to ancient times without writing. "Book of Rites" records a sacrificial ballad from the Shennong era: "Earth, return to its home! Water, return to its gully! Insects, do not work! Grass and trees, return to their marshes!" "Wuyue Spring and Autumn" also recorded a reflection "Dan Ge", a primitive hunting song: "Broken bamboo, renewed bamboo, flying earth, chasing the meat." These songs are typical examples of the combination of poetry, music, and dance, and the combination of poetry, music, and dance, It is an important feature of the period when Chinese poetry was produced. ?
In the 6th century BC, "The Book of Songs" was compiled into a book, including 160 chapters on the local folk music of the fifteen kingdoms, 31 chapters on the Daya and 74 chapters on the imperial music, and 74 chapters on the music of sacrifices. There are 40 odes, 305 poems, and 6 Sheng songs whose scores have been lost. The area of ??origin includes present-day Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong and northern Hunan. There are poems in the Book of Songs that reflect the enjoyment of banquets, such as "Xiaoya Lu Ming"; there are poems that reflect war, such as "Xiaoya June"; famous love poems such as "Zheng Feng Zijin"; there are satires The realistic "Wei Feng·Fa Tan"; there is also a set of large-scale Zhou royal epics "Shengmin", "Gongliu", "Mian", "Huangyi" and "Daming" that reflect the founding history of the Zhou Dynasty. ?
The Book of Songs, which is mainly composed of four characters and repeated chapters, shows the national literary characteristics of our country’s lyric-based national literature. From it, our country’s poetry embarked on a path of expressing emotions and aspirations. Lyrical poetry It has also become the main form of Chinese poetry. The enthusiasm for paying attention to reality, the strong political and moral consciousness, and the sincere and positive attitude towards life in the "Book of Songs" are summarized as the "elegance" spirit and become the most basic and far-reaching tradition of Chinese poetry.