1. Poetry Group (zǔshī) refers to a work composed of several poems with the same title and related contents. Each poem in the poetry group is relatively complete and independent, but each poem has internal relations with other poems in the poetry group.
2. This connection can be the same theme, related content, or similar in space or time. No matter what kind of connection, as a group of poems, it aims to comprehensively and thoroughly reflect the connotation of things and the author's emotions from different angles, levels and orientations. From this point of view, group poems have advantages that single poems do not have. Poetry with unique stylistic features reflects the poet's complicated inner world and influences other styles, which has special stylistic significance in the history of literary development.
3. As a unique form of poetry expression, group poetry sprouted in the pre-Qin period and settled in the Tang Dynasty. A large number of works have appeared in various periods since the pre-Qin period. They are as few as two, as many as dozens, or even as many as a hundred. Either at the same time and place, or at different times and places. The content involves giving and receiving, chanting scriptures, chanting history, traveling, mourning, injury, feasting, singing, visiting immortals, offering sacrifices, pastoral and other subject areas.
4. For example, Sima Xiangru's Two Qin Poems, Cao Cao's Out of Xiamen, Cao Zhi's Two Poems of Seeing Ying, Ruan Ji's 82 Poems of Mourning for the Dead, Pan Yue's Three Poems of Mourning for the Dead, Zuo Si's Eight Poems of Wandering Immortals and Tao Yuanming's Five Poems of Returning to the Garden. Wang Wei's Four Boys' Tour, seven pastoral songs, Li Bai's three Qingpingdiao, six Youtaishan, four Duzhuo Mingyue Songs, seventeen Qiupu Songs, and Dong's one Youdu Road.