"Living in the stream for things" is a seven-character quatrain written by Cui Daorong, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. In the poet's works, the small village by the water, the closed Chai Men, the scattered fences and the floating boats constitute a peaceful and beautiful picture full of pastoral life. The poet also captured a small incident that happened in an instant in this picture, depicting a warm, simple, innocent and lovely image of a rural child.
Poetry, pictophonetic characters, first appeared in the Warring States period, but not in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen. According to scholar Zhou Cezong, the word "poem" developed from the basic symbol shown in Figure A, which first developed to the symbol shown in Figure B, and then to the symbol (temple) shown in Figure C, which refers to the meaning of a specific behavior accompanied by some actions, music, songs and dances in sacrifice. Later, the emphasis on music, poetry and writing came into being.