There were two-character poems, four-character poems, five-character poems and seven-character poems in the pre-Qin period, and the representative works were The Book of Songs and Songs of the South.
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The representative poems of Han Yuefu in Han Dynasty are Nineteen Ancient Poems and Peacock Flying Southeast.
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During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were also "seven sages of bamboo forest" centered on "three Cao" and "seven sons of Jian 'an". The masterpiece is Poems on Huai River, and Tao Yuanming has pastoral poems in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty.
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During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the folk songs in the Southern Dynasties were graceful and tactful; The folk songs of the Northern Dynasties are rough and bold, and the masterpiece is Mulan Poetry.
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There were two schools in the prosperous Tang Dynasty: one was the pastoral school of Wang Wei and Meng Haoran; Second, Gao Shi, Cen Can, Wang Changling and other frontier poets. Then Li Bai and Du Fu were born. In the middle Tang Dynasty, represented by Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, they created the new Yuefu and Qin Zhongyin. Song of Eternal Sorrow and Pipa Journey are famous works, represented by Han Yu and Meng Jiao, which are written in the form of prose poems. There are also Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan. Li's poem Leng Yan is deep and secluded. Only Du Mu and Li Shangyin achieved great success in the late Tang Dynasty.
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In the early Song Dynasty, poets Yang Yi and Qian were equally famous for their poetic style. Together with the Prisoner, Mei He and others, they opposed the style, which laid the foundation for the healthy development of Song poetry. Ouyang Xiu advocated the poetry innovation movement. Su Shi and Huang are the most influential poets in the Northern Song Dynasty, and Lu You, You Mao, Yang Wanli and Fan Chengda are outstanding representatives of poets in the Southern Song Dynasty. There were Wen Tianxiang and Wang Yuanliang in the late Song Dynasty. The most outstanding poet in the Jin Dynasty was Yuan Haowen.
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In the early Ming Dynasty, the poems of Gao Qi, Liu Ji and others were full of social reality, but then the "Taige Style" poetry school headed by the imperial court assistant minister rose. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the "first seven sons" and the "last seven sons" successively launched the retro movement, which was criticized by people of insight. First, the "Tang and Song School" began to correct it, and then the "Public Security School", which greatly impacted the retro thoughts of the former and the latter seven sons. Later, the "Jingling School" advocated similar to the "Public Security School".
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The poems of Huang Zongxi, Gu and Wang Fuzhi in the early Qing Dynasty had strong national feelings and patriotic thoughts. Qian, Wu and others had a great influence in the early Qing Dynasty. Wang Shizhen advocated "verve theory" and became a leading figure in poetry at that time. In the middle of Qing Dynasty, the ideological trend of being far away from reality, attaching importance to form and taking learning as poetry was very popular, and only Zheng Xie (Banqiao), Yuan Mei and Huang Jingren were more distinctive. During Daoguang and Xianfeng years, Gong Zizhen used poetry as a weapon to expose social darkness, became a great poet, and won the reputation of "first class in 300 years".