How did poetry come into being?

Poetry came into being because ancient information technology was underdeveloped, and it was very inconvenient for people to transmit information from one area to another, so they wrote poems into songs and spread them from people's mouths. Poetry originated from ancient social life, which is a rhythmic and emotional language form due to labor production, sex and primitive religion.

Poetry is a literary genre that expresses feelings and wishes. It is a literary genre with a certain rhythm and rhythm, which vividly expresses the author's rich emotions in highly concise language and reflects the social life in a concentrated way. The earliest literature collection "Shangshu" has such definitions of "poem" and "song". As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, people's understanding of "poetry" and "song" was very clear and accurate.

"Poetry" expresses our thoughts and feelings, while "song" actually expresses our language by extension. Moreover, the ancients put "poetry" in front, because he thought that poetry came into being first, and when people had feelings in their hearts, they immediately expressed it as "poetry" and then used "songs" to decorate your language.

"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.