Introduction
The Chinese nation is known as the "country of poetry" and has a long history of poetry tradition. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the first collection of poems in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Book of Songs, Chinese literati of all dynasties have continued to chant poems in an endless stream, and the writing of poems has never stopped.
Poetry writing and chanting has a long history. It is an ancient civilization with a vast territory and many poets. Throughout the ages, poets writing in Chinese are as bright as stars.
Who is the greatest poet in the history of Chinese literature for thousands of years? I think ten thousand people will have ten thousand answers, but in my mind the greatest poet is none other than them.
The great patriotic poet Qu Yuan
Qu Yuan was a native of Chu during the Warring States Period. In the minds of many people, Qu Yuan is the well-deserved first poet in China. In the 1950s, Qu Yuan was selected as one of the "four major cultural celebrities in the world" together with Poland's Copernicus, Britain's Shakespeare, and France's Rabelais.
In the history of Chinese poetry, Qu Yuan is the first poet in the true sense. Most of the authors of the Book of Songs cannot be verified, or they were collective creations. Qu Yuan was the first great poet with a large number of extant works.
Works such as "Li Sao", "Nine Chapters" and "Nine Songs" are still recited by us today. Qu Yuan's works are extremely innovative. He is the founder of "Chu Ci" and influenced a large number of poets in later generations.
A word often used by later generations of literati is "fengshao". "Fengshao" means the style of the "Fifteen Kingdoms" in "The Book of Songs", and "fengshao" refers to Qu Yuan's "Li Sao". The term "poet and poet" also comes from this allusion.
The great pastoral poet Tao Yuanming
Tao Yuanming is an existence that can never be ignored in the history of Chinese literature and culture. This impoverished scholar, this stubborn man who resigned from Peng Zeling and returned to his family to farm, has become the spiritual coordinate of many Chinese people.
It can be said that without Tao Yuanming, Chinese culture and Chinese literature would lose their beauty. His life and actions are an amazing poem!
Tao Yuanming is excellent in both poetry and prose, and a large number of his handed down works have been selected into Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools. Works such as "Returning to the Countryside", "Record of the Peach Blossom Spring", "Returning to the Countryside" and "Returning to the Country" are well known to women and children and are popular among the people. The charm of his poetry lies in nature, simplicity and spirit. ?Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing Nanshan Mountain. ?The reclusive and unrestrained style of a literati is best reflected in his works.
And the "Peach Blossom Spring" he wrote has become the "Utopia" deep in the hearts of Chinese people for thousands of years, comforting the hearts of generations of Chinese people.