From ancient poetry to Yuefu, from Yuefu to long and short sentences (Qu Zi Ci)
origin
Labor creates language, people exchange thoughts and feelings to produce songs, and songs appear in the form of poems.
Exchange ideas and feelings
The ancients were based on the worship of ancestors and the awe of nature. Are manifested in sacrificial activities. Sacrifice is a ritual activity, and poetry has become the main content.
South Shen Yue. Textual research on Jing Yue said that Yue Gang's eyes are attached with ceremony, and his lyrics are attached with poems.
It is conceivable that singing poetry is an important form of sacrifice. Poetry is an emotional medium to convey sacrifice to people.
People exchange their thoughts and feelings and make sacrifices for others, resulting in poetry, which plays such a role. Therefore, later Jian 'an literati proposed that five-character poems could be quickly accepted by the times, which broke the situation of the unification of ci and fu in the Han Dynasty for more than 400 years.
Poetry is the product of social needs.