This genre can be divided into two categories: poetry and ci. From the time of formation, ci was formed later than poetry.
Poetry can be divided into two types: classical poetry and modern poetry. Classical poetry and modern poetry are concepts formed in the Tang Dynasty, which are divided from the perspective of poetry rhythm. According to the content, it can be divided into narrative poems, lyric poems, farewell poems, frontier poems, pastoral poems, nostalgic poems (poems about history) and poems about things.