Poetry about objects is an important category in China's ancient poems. Poems with historical themes have many names, such as reminiscing about the past, nostalgia for the past, visiting the past, feeling the past, rejuvenating the past, reading history, chanting history and so on. There are also some historical figures and events that are directly named and sung. They all have a common feature, that is, they all take history as the carrier of poets' feelings, and they are closely combined with history and feelings, so I think they all belong to the broad category of chanting history. If we give a definition of chanting history, then all poems that describe, evaluate, mourn or embrace the rise and fall of the country can be called chanting history.
Its characteristics are divided into five points:
First, a deep sense of hardship.
Second, the swimming epic in the late Tang Dynasty likes to write old stories about Kaiyuan and Tianbao, such as Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei. Seeing the big from the small and satirizing the Sui and Tang Dynasties is a basic feature of chanting epic poems in the late Tang Dynasty.
Third, just turn over the old case.
Fourth, the seven-character quatrains (including metrical poems) in the prosperous Tang Dynasty are skillfully cut.
Fifth, write the heart with the title.
There are such works in The Book of Songs and Li Sao, and the first real epic in the history of poetry is Ban Gu's Ode to an Epic in the Eastern Han Dynasty.