The development order of ancient poetry can be summarized as follows: The Book of Songs-Chuci-Hanfu-Tang Poetry-Song Poetry-Yuanqu-Modern Poetry. There were two-character poems, four-character poems, five-character poems and seven-character poems in the pre-Qin period, and the representative works were The Book of Songs and Songs of the South in the late Warring States period. The representative poems of Han Yuefu in Han Dynasty are Nineteen Ancient Poems and Peacock Flying Southeast. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, a group of people under the Ye Dynasty were formed centering on "Three Caos" and "Seven Scholars of Jian 'an" such as RoyceWong, and were praised as "Jian 'an Style" by later generations. There are also "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest". His representative works include eighty-two poems of Yong Huai written by Ruan Ji. Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty had a direct impact on the pastoral poetry school in the Tang Dynasty. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the representative poets in the South were Xie Lingyun and Bao Zhao. Folk songs in the Southern Dynasties are graceful and euphemistic, and the masterpiece is Xizhou Song. The folk songs of the Northern Dynasties are rough and bold, and the masterpiece is Mulan Poetry. The Tang Dynasty was the golden age in the history of China's poetry. "Four outstanding poets in the early Tang Dynasty", two major schools of poetry first appeared in the prosperous Tang Dynasty:
First, the school of pastoral poetry represented by Wang Wei and Meng Haoran is characterized by leisure, fresh and natural style;
Second, frontier poets, represented by Gao Shi, Cen Can and Wang Changling, wrote more about frontier scenery and military life, either generously and tragically or magnificently. So Li Bai and Du Fu were born, known as the "Gemini" in the history of China's poetry. After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang poetry experienced a short transition, and the second prosperity appeared in the middle Tang Dynasty. Represented by Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, the New Yuefu Movement was launched. They advocated that "articles should keep pace with the times, and poetry should keep pace with the times", and created allegorical poems such as New Yuefu and Qin Zhongyin, criticizing the disadvantages of the times. Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow and Pipa Travel are famous ancient poems. Han Meng, represented by Han Yu and Meng Jiao, advocates adventure and grotesque, and creates prose poems. In addition, there are poets with artistic personality, such as Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan. Middle and late Tang dynasty