Poetry, as an important part of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, has left a rich and colorful stroke in the history of Chinese literature, leaving us with literary treasures. It is recorded in Shi Mao-The Preface:? Poetry is something that talks about ambition. What I say in my heart is ambition, and what I write is poetry. ? Yan Yu's Cang Shi Lang Dialect in the Southern Song Dynasty also said:? Poetry is also a thing to praise people's character and taste. ? In ancient times, words that were in line with music were called songs, and words that were not in line with music were called poems. They described the society in a certain period according to a certain rhythm and sense of rhythm, and showed the living conditions and spiritual world of the masses in a certain period. In ancient times, the language system of society was not developed, which made the information exchange between different tribes very inconvenient. In this case, in order to convey information, they write poems and recite what they have to say. Therefore, poetry comes from the daily life of ancient people. The Book of Songs, as the first collection of poems in Chinese history, is also a symbol of the maturity of poetry, so we can think that poetry, a literary genre, originated in the pre-Qin period and prevailed in the Tang Dynasty.
Ci, a literary theme, sprouted in the Southern Dynasties, or rather began in the Southern Liang Dynasty.
Ci is a variant of poetry, which was originally called? Qu ci? Many nicknames. As a folk art form, it matched music at first, and then it gradually separated from music and became a unique style of poetry, so it was also called? Yu Shi? . Ci, as a literary genre developed in the lower class for a long time, has many forms and types, but it also has strict requirements in epigrams and other aspects, and its sentence characteristics are also diverse. However, because words were performed by music in the early days, sometimes words did not strictly conform to the law.