China's traditional poetry creation, broadly speaking, China's traditional literature creation can not be separated from two styles, namely realism and romanticism. The source of these two so-called theories is the Book of Songs, and the latter is the Songs of Chu.
The Book of Songs was written in the Spring and Autumn Period, including 305 poems from the Yin Shang Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. These 305 articles are roughly divided into three parts: wind, elegance and praise. Among them, 160 is the wind that accounts for the vast majority, that is, the wind of fifteen countries, because most of these 160 are collected by poets from the people. Therefore, The Book of Songs can be roughly regarded as "civilian literature", that is, it is not a specific one. The songs in the south are different. The works included in Songs of the South are written by some famous full-time writers with surnames, such as Qu Yuan, Song Yu, Jing Ke and Le Tang. They are all great poets, famous in literature and history. Chu Ci was formed late, and Qu Yuan was regarded as a Sect, which should also be in the late Warring States period. Geographically speaking, The Book of Songs is a vast area dominated by the north, while the songs of Chu are confined to the southern Chu area. Its emergence and development can not be separated from Chu's language, customs and other regional characteristics. Like Cantonese music now, it is purely regional culture.
In addition, in terms of content, the Book of Songs covers a wide range, with love poems that men and women complain about, such as Nanfeng? Guan Yu is the representative; There are also poems describing the hard work of slaves, such as Feng Wei? Cut sandalwood and Feng Wei? A companion to Storytelling; There are also poems with bitter feminine thoughts, such as the famous poem Feng Wang? In service "; There are also poems that express the patriotic consciousness of literati, such as Feng Wang? Xiaomi is gone ","Xiaoya? Festival Nanshan "and" Xiaoya? Rain without correction and so on, almost all aspects are involved. Generally speaking, The Book of Songs reflects the real life and feelings of all social strata, especially ordinary people (including slaves and servants). What is different from it is the Songs of the South, written by literati, which mostly expresses the feelings of literati about reality, such as Qu Yuan's Li Sao, as Sima Qian said, "Those who leave Sao are still worried", that is, the expression of Qu Yuan's depressed mood after being expelled; Another example is Tian Wen, which simply means that the author is "worried, traveling, sighing, ..." (Wang Wen). It should be noted that, even so, the sense of hardship and patriotic feelings in Chu Ci are in the same strain as the Book of Songs, which runs through the history of China literature like a red line.