(1) Poetry is one of the most important ways for human beings to express their feelings. "Poetry? The preface comments on ancient poetry, "Where the poet is, he is there. Heart is ambition, words are poetry, feelings are in the heart, and form is in words. Not enough, so I lament. Lamenting is not enough, so sing. Obviously, China people have long recognized that poetry is an important way to express their feelings and will.
(2) Poetry has opened up the spiritual world of mankind. In China's cultural tradition, the most subtle exploration of individual self is not philosophy, but poetry. Life, love, loneliness, distress, moving and understanding, in these instantaneous, mysterious and unique spiritual experiences, poetry reveals the finiteness of human life in the realm of changeable situation and flourishing flowers and leaves, and breaks through this finiteness to some extent, opening up the spiritual world of human beings and endowing it with short-lived meaning.
(3) Poetry brings infinite aesthetic feeling to people. Poetry and music complement each other, so music rhythm becomes the most important structure of poetry. From the modality of ancient folk songs contained in early poems, to the graceful lingering of Chu Ci, and then to modern poems or metrical poems opposite to ancient poems, these exquisite and elegant poetic forms, and the rich, delicate and novel artistic conception contained in them, are the crystallization of wisdom and sensitive mind, which is the peak of China's formal aesthetics.
Therefore, ancient poetry plays an irreplaceable role in the cultural history of China, is a treasure in China's splendid cultural heritage, and is a rich resource for humanities education and language learning. In the vast literary river, ancient poetry is like a bright pearl, inheriting the blood essence of Chinese children.