1, China's poetry was born before the invention of writing, and it was gradually formed and developed in people's labor and singing and dancing.
2. The Book of Songs is a collection of poems from1/kloc-0 to the 6th century BC, and it is also the first collection of poems in China, with 305 poems. According to different music, it can be divided into three categories: wind, elegance and ode.
3. Influenced by him, Qu Yuan and Song Yu created a new poetic style of Chu Ci. Qu Yuan's Lisao is an outstanding masterpiece of Chu Ci. Chuci developed the form of poetry. It broke the four-word form of The Book of Songs, from three or four words to five or seven words. In terms of creative methods, Chu Ci absorbed the romantic spirit of myth and opened up the creative road of romanticism in China literature.
4. Following the Book of Songs and Songs of the South, a new form of poetry appeared in the Han Dynasty, namely the folk songs of Han Yuefu.
5. Poetry developed into the Tang Dynasty and ushered in a highly mature golden age.
6. Poetry did not develop as brilliantly as in the Tang Dynasty, but it has its own unique style, namely, reducing lyrical elements, increasing narrative and discussion elements, emphasizing description, and widely using prose syntax, which alienated poetry from music.
7. Poetry in the Ming Dynasty moved forward in the repetition of imitation and anti-imitation, and there were no outstanding works and poets.
8. In the May 4th literary revolution, modern literature in China was born. After the pioneering stage, new poetry has formed a relatively perfect form with free poetry as the main body and new metrical poetry and symbolic poetry.
In the second half of the 1940s, new poems called folk songs matured in the rural areas of the liberated areas, and their outstanding achievements in folk songs were concentrated in the narrative poems of He Ruan.
10, 1949 after the founding of new China, poetry entered a new stage of development, and new themes and themes emerged with the new life. The poet wrote an ode to the new era with passion. At the same time, the new society has also produced a number of new people and new works in the field of poetry.