Let's talk about his development.
Poetry is the earliest literary genre in the history of world literature development. In primitive feudal society, poetry was combined with music and dance, and there was no independent form. Later, with the development of social life and the progress of literature and art, poetry gradually became a specific literary genre.
Poetic China
The origin of China's poems, recorded in writing, should start from the Western Zhou Dynasty. China's earliest collection of poems, The Book of Songs, is a collection of folk songs from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period and works by upper-class noble literati. 305 books are the seeds of China's poems and China's literature. "Confucius said 300 poems, in a word, the thought is innocent!" It means the Book of Songs. The Book of Songs is divided into three categories: wind, elegance and ode, among which elegance is divided into elegance and elegance. There are couplets: Four Books, Ode to Ya and Three Kingdoms, Wei Shuwu, in which elegance and vulgarity are divided into different sizes. The most striking feature of poetry is that it is full of imagination and emotion; Secondly, it reflects social life. To put it bluntly, poetry comes from the people, from life, but it is higher than life.
China's earliest collection of poems, The Book of Songs.
In the Warring States period, it was probably the 4th century BC. A group of Chu literati represented by Qu Yuan and Song Yu, relying on the unique foundation of Chu culture, merged with the northern culture and created a new poetic style-Chu Ci. The representative work is Li Sao written by Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet. On the basis of three or four sentences in The Book of Songs, a five-character and seven-character sentence pattern was developed, which absorbed the romantic spirit from the content and pioneered the romantic style of China literature. It's like "The road is long, Xiu Yuan, Xiu Yuan, and I will go up and down." Full of patriotic feelings.
Qu Yuan and Li Sao
Following the Book of Songs and Songs of the South, poetry developed into a new form in the Han Dynasty, that is, Yuefu folk songs, whose representative work was Yuefu Poetry (later edited by Guo Maoqian in the Northern Song Dynasty). Most of the works of this collection of poems are five-character poems, which shined brilliantly in Wei and Jin Dynasties. We are familiar with the works of this period, such as Sang, Mulan Poem, Peacock Flying Southeast, Poem of Resentment, Yan Ge, and Ode to Luoshen. Fu is a form between poetry and style. In Wen Xin Diao Long, Liu Xie said: "Taking talents as the text and things as the text" refers to the characteristics of Fu. Han Shu's "Records of Literature and Art" says: "Recite without singing." Although there are many controversies about whether Fu belongs to poetic style in later generations, as far as its form is concerned, it is born out of The Book of Songs and Songs of the South, and there is no need to argue.
Illustration of Luo Shenfu
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the shadow of Tang poetry has been formed. Cao Zhi's seven-step poem "Boil beans and burn bean baskets, and beans cry in the kettle." This is the same root, why bother to fry each other? " Five-character quatrains are well reflected. The development of first-class poetry to the Tang Dynasty, accompanied by the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, ushered in the peak of prosperity, which is the era when China's poetry was widely spread.