1, sacrifice
Our ancestors, primitive humans, could not understand many natural phenomena such as wind, electricity, thunder and rain, nor could they understand earthquakes, landslides, floods and other disasters, so they all came down to the gods. These phenomena are instructions, warnings or punishments from the gods to human beings.
Primitive humans used songs and dances to express their admiration and awe for gods, and to express people's expectations and entreaties-such as peace and health, good weather and abundant crops. At first, this sacrificial language was just a simple monosyllabic roar. With the development of human language, it has gradually evolved into various songs with clear meanings, which is an origin of poetry.
2. Labor production
In primitive labor production, whether it is hunting, resisting the invasion of foreign and wild animals, transforming the living environment, resisting the harm of nature, etc. Many people often need to go together.
In order to better carry out and complete the goal of labor production, it is necessary to work in a consistent rhythm and coordinated action, so a labor chant was invented, which developed from the initial roar to the later ballad style, and this ballad evolved into another origin of poetry. It not only has the function of regulating labor rhythm, but also can regulate labor interest, adjust people's psychology, relieve fatigue and cheer up the spirit.
Second, development.
The Tang Dynasty was a country of poetry, and poets came forth in large numbers. For example, Yang Jiong, Lu and Luo, who are known as the "four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty"; Cen Can, Gao Shi and Wang Zhihuan, who are famous for frontier poems; Meng Haoran, famous for his landscape poems; In particular, Li Bai, a poet, Du Fu, a poet sage, and Bai Juyi, a popular poet, are even more brilliant.
The development of Tang poetry reached its peak. Five-character poems, seven-character poems and miscellaneous poems compete with each other like flowers in Wan Fang gardens. In particular, a new poetic style, metrical poetry, has emerged, which is even more dazzling.
Rhyme is a poetic style with strict metrical requirements. It has strict rules on the number of words, sentences, rhyming, leveling and antithesis. This poetic style is unprecedented.
In order to show the difference from classical poetry, the Tang Dynasty called it modern poetry or modern poetry. Rhyme is the representative of Tang poetry, which was inherited by later poets. Although there are many excellent poems after the Tang Dynasty, there are basically no major new breakthroughs.
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Genre:
1. Realistic poetics holds that poetry is a reflection of real life in the poet's mind. Only real life is the source of poetry and all arts. Poets are singers of life, and poetry is the singing of life.
2. Romantic poetics holds that the poet is a kind of love, and the emotions in the poet's heart are projected into the world, and everything in the world will be poetic. Therefore, poetry should be the self-expression of the poet, the direct expression of the poet's feelings, and the call of the poet's soul to the ideal world.
3. Formalism poetics holds that poetry is only a meaningful language art form. Any kind of "content" can only become art after "formalization". Form will not yield to content. Poets' pursuit of beauty is often an independent creation of form.
The independent quality of form means that poets have the independent power to criticize social reality and open up a better world. In extreme formalism poetics, poetry is just a language craft.
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