It is a literary genre that expresses feelings and wishes. "Shi Mao-Preface" records: "Poets have aspirations. Have ambition in your heart and speak like a poem. " Yan Yu's Poems on Canglang in the Southern Song Dynasty said that "poets chant temperament". There is only one art expressed in words: poetry.
Poetry is full of the author's thoughts, feelings and rich imagination. The language is concise and vivid, with distinct rhythm, harmonious phonology and rich musical beauty. Sentences are generally in rows, paying attention to the beauty of structure and form.
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China's ancient poems, commonly known as old-style poems, refer to poems written in classical Chinese and traditional meter. They are China's ancient poems in a broad sense, which can include all kinds of ancient Chinese rhymes, such as Fu, Ci and Qu. In a narrow sense, they only include ancient poems and modern poems, and they are a form of cultural expression produced by many ethnic groups in the process of language development. Most ancient poems are written by literati, who express their thoughts by writing poems and singing.
Poetry is the earliest and most fully developed literary genre in China literature. The existing ancient ballads vividly reflect the living conditions and inner wishes of China ancestors, and their short and vivid forms also show the power of China national language. Historical Evolution Many ethnic groups have produced poetic forms suitable for their own languages in the development of their languages.
In China, the earliest collection of poems is The Book of Songs, in which the earliest poems were written in the early Western Zhou Dynasty and the latest works were written in the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. During the Warring States Period, the languages of Huaxia and Baiyue nationalities in southern Chu gradually merged, and its poetry collection "Songs of Chu" broke through some formal restrictions in the Book of Songs and better reflected the characteristics of southern languages.
Ancient Poetry in Han Dynasty: Yuefu Poetry was formed in Han Dynasty. Yuefu poetry is sung to match the music, which is equivalent to the lyrics of modern society. This kind of Yuefu poetry is called Qu, Ci, Song and Xing. During the Three Kingdoms period, the poetry works represented by Jian 'an literature absorbed the nutrition of Yuefu poetry, which laid the foundation for later modern poetry with more rigorous meter.
In the Tang Dynasty, there were four quatrains and eight metrical poems in China's poems. Rhyme and rhyme are balanced, and the balance and antithesis of each sentence are regular. The quatrains are a little looser. In addition, the words that reached their peak in the Song Dynasty are also an important form of poetry.
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