In ancient times, folk songs were the source of poetry.
L Zhou Dynasty: The earliest collection of poems in China, The Book of Songs, appeared, which was also the earliest and most important source of China.
Late Warring States Period: Another source of China's poetry, Songs of the South, appeared, and its founder and representative writer was Qu Yuan (Li Sao, Tian Wen, Jiu Ge and other masterpieces).
L Han Dynasty: Nineteen ancient poems by literati in Yuefu at the end of Han Dynasty appeared.
L Late Han Dynasty: The prosperity of five-character poems is a remarkable event in the history of China's poetry that folk songs influenced literati's creation. Many five-character poems in the late Han Dynasty have been called "ancient poems" since the Jin Dynasty because the author's name cannot be verified. )
L Jian 'an period: it is the conscious period of literature and the prosperous period of literati's five-character poetry creation. (Representative figures: Cao Cao, Cao Pi, Cao Zhi and other seven sons of Jian 'an, among whom Cao Zhi's achievements are the most outstanding)
L after Jian' an literature: the emergence of official history literature. (Representative writers: Ruan Ji, Ji Kang)
L Western Jin Dynasty: The relationship between poetry and reality gradually alienated, and literati poetry creation entered a trough.
L Liu Song in the Eastern Jin Dynasty: Poetry Revival (representative writers: Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun)
Southern and Northern Dynasties: A great achievement in poetry creation is the new development of folk songs. The masterpiece is Mulan Ci.
Late Southern Dynasties: Most poems are empty and full of powder.
The Golden Age in the History of China's Poetry.
Early Tang Dynasty: Yang Jiong, Lu and Luo (four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty).
Tang Dynasty: Li Bai and Du Fu, pastoral poets represented by Meng Haoran and Wang Wei, frontier poets represented by Gao Shi and Wang Changling.
Mid-Tang Dynasty: poets such as Han Yu, Meng Jiao, Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi and Liu Yuxi.
Late Tang Dynasty: Li Shangyin, Du Mu, Wen Tingyun and other poets.
L Song Dynasty: Poetry is mainly prose, pursuing the plain development direction of poetry (poets such as Su Shi, Yang Wanli and Lu You)
The Development and Prosperity of Ci (Yan Shu, Ouyang Xiu, Liu Yong, Su Shi, Zhang Xiaoxiang, Xin Qiji and other poets)
Yuan Zaju: A new form of poetry is Xiao Ling. (Guan Hanqing, Ma Zhiyuan, Zhang, etc. )
L Ming and Qing Dynasties: Although poetry continued to develop, there was little innovation and expansion. (Gao Qi in Ming Dynasty, "Three Masters of Jiang Zuo" in late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, "Six Masters of State Dynasty" in Qing Dynasty, Gong Zizhen in Qing Dynasty, etc. )
Around the Reform Movement of 1898, Kang Liang and others put forward the slogan of "Poetry Revolution", which had an important influence on the emergence of modern poetry in China, especially the vernacular Chinese.