"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 also chant temperament". There is only one art expressed in words: poetry.
In ancient China, unhappy people were called poems and happy people were called songs. In modern times, they are generally called poems. It expresses social life and people's spiritual world according to certain syllables and rhythms. The origin of poetry can be traced back to ancient times. The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, which is said to have been compiled by Confucius. There is still debate on this issue in academic circles.
China's ancient poetry experienced the development of Yuefu, Tang Poetry, Song Poetry and Yuan Qu in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties. "History of rites and music": "If you have an indissoluble bond with your relatives, you will come from poetry and Zhong Shi will sing the strings." Yue's Diary of Hanshu Ji Hui is a poetic prophecy. Preface to Han Yu's Poems of Yunzhou Xitang in Tang Dynasty: "Although the poems of Sitang are said to have words, they have no poems, and they connect the people with Tao without attracting public morality." Wang Hong of the Ming Dynasty wrote a long article about Zhenze and the official system: "In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Hanlin was a very strict place, and many poets found it." Lu Xun's Letters to Dou: "Although there are two kinds of poems: seeing and singing, it is better to study the latter." Literature and history information of Yuan's Garden in Suixian County: "Yuan () Garden is in Mingfengmen ... Every beautiful day, scholars and celebrities in the state gather here." Later, the poems recited became a special anthology, called Penglai Jisheng. "