The scope of "poetry" you said is relatively wide, including rhymes of poems, words and songs. "Poetry is a literary genre with subjective feelings. It reflects social life in a lyrical way, is highly concise and concentrated, and expresses thoughts and feelings with rich imagination, rhythmic language and line-by-line arrangement. Poetry is a rhythmic, rhythmic and emotional language art form, and also the oldest and most basic literary form in the world. Poetry originated from ancient social life and is a rhythmic and emotional language form produced by labor production, sex and primitive religion. " Shangshu Yu Shu: "Poetry expresses aspiration, song expresses aspiration, sound is eternal, law and harmony. "Rites and Music": "Poetry expresses ambition; Song, chanting its voice; Dance, move its capacity; The three are based on the heart, and then the instrument follows it. "In the early days, poetry, song, music and dance were integrated. Poetry is the lyrics, which are always sung with music and dance in actual performances. Later, poetry, song, music and dance developed independently and became independent adults. Poetry and song are collectively called poetry. "
Poems and songs in the Song Dynasty are also called "Song Poems", and there are also "Yuan Poems". The reason why "Song Ci" and "Yuan Qu" are often mentioned is that Ci and Qu are the most prominent and successful literary forms in these two dynasties respectively. As for the Ming and Qing Dynasties, poetry declined compared with the previous generation, but novels developed greatly, so it is generally said that "Tang poetry, Song poetry, Yuan qu, Ming and Qing novels"