In ancient times, when information technology was underdeveloped, it was very inconvenient for people to transmit information from one area to another, so they compiled the written poems into songs and the poems came 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.
The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems.
In ancient Han dynasty, unhappy people were called poems, while happy people were called songs (such as Han Yuefu), and modern people generally called poems.
Therefore, poetry can be understood as the name of poetry in the origin stage, which is a large scope.
Poetry is divided into poems and words, and the source is said before the poem.
Ci is a unique poetic style, which sprouted in the Southern Dynasties and is a new literary style in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, after a long period of continuous development, Ci entered its heyday. The original name of Ci is "Quci" or "Quci", and it is also called: modern Yuefu, long and short sentences, Ci, Quci, music movement, musical interest, and harmony poems. It is a song and poem full of feasts, and the epigraph is the name of the tone of the word. Different epigrams have regulations on the total number of words, the number of sentences, the number of words per sentence and the level.
From this point of view, the poems we have learned in junior high school and senior high school are all poems, which are commonly used.