When can the history of poetry be traced back?

Compared with Ci and Qu, China's poetry has the longest history and the most brilliant achievements. It gets up early, lasts for a long time and is young.

The history of poetry can be traced back to shortly after the appearance of language. "Huai Nan Zi Dao Ying Xun" said: "If people hold a big tree today, it is a song of persuasion to call' bad promises' before and respond to them later." It can be seen that the labor chant in Primitive Labor is the most primitive poem, and Lu Xun dubbed it "Yu Hang Yu Hang School" (on foreign languages). "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals and Ancient Music" also said: "The joy of the past, three people fuck the oxtail, and cast their feet with songs." It can be seen that primitive poems and songs are inseparable, and they are closely related to music and dance. However, due to the lack of written records, most of these original poems have disappeared. Most of the ballads recorded in some ancient books in the so-called times of Shennong, Huangdi and Yaoshun have been polished by later generations, or even works in disguised form, but some works have retained the original flavor of ancient times, such as "Slingshot" in Volume 9 of Wu Yue Chun Qiu, which says: "Broken bamboo, continued bamboo, flying soil, one by one (the ancient word" meat "). It shows the hunting process from cutting bamboo slingshots to projectiles hitting prey with simple rhythm.