Those short, pithy and well-known ballads in early ancient times are the embryonic form of poetry.
The Book of Songs in the Spring and Autumn Period is China's first collection of poems. It contains 305 poems about 500 years from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period.
The Book of Songs is divided into "style", "elegance" and "ode", which is the initial formation of China's poetry history.
During the Warring States Period, the poet Qu Yuan created another poetic genre & Sao Style, which is a kind of lyric poetry.
Li Sao, as the representative, is generally long in length and fleXible in sentence structure, with six or seven words and "xi" as the auxiliary word.
Five-character poems written by scholars in Yuefu of Han Dynasty and the end of Eastern Han Dynasty have the highest achievements.
Poetry in the Han Dynasty developed on the basis of The Book of Songs, Songs of the South and the folk songs of Qin and Han Dynasties, and generally experienced the development process from folk songs to literati's creation, from Yuefu songs to literati's poems, that is, "ancient poems", from four-character poems to five-character poems, from Sao poems to seven-character poems, and from narrative poems to lyric poems.
Poetry in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties plays an important role in connecting the preceding with the following.
In about 400 years, both literati poems and folk songs have developed greatly.
In terms of literati poetry, a large number of outstanding poets such as "Three Caos and Seven Scholars", Cai Yan, Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Zuo Si, Tao Yuanming and Xie Tiao have emerged. Their creation greatly enriched the aesthetic function of poetry to express self-emotion.
At the same time, many poets have made innovative explorations in the language structure and expression of poetry. Five-character poems flourished, seven-character poems gradually became the mainstream, and metrical poems began to take shape, which laid the foundation for the prosperity of Tang poetry from the poetic ontology.
Poetry in the Tang Dynasty reached its peak.
The development, quantity, content and genre of his poems far exceed that of any dynasty.
Some previous poetry genres were also better perfected in the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, China's ancient poems are often called Tang poems.
Then in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the appearance of Song Ci, Yuan Qu and Ming and Qing novels, even though these styles and genres made brilliant achievements, they did not replace the position of poetry.
In modern times, new poetry stands out.
New poetry was born in the May 4th New Culture Movement.
It is characterized by writing in vernacular language, expressing new contents of the times such as science and democracy, breaking the shackles of old poetry rules and being flexible and free in form, which is the main form of modern and contemporary poetry.
Throughout history, poetry culture has an indelible and decisive position in the cultural history of China.
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