A literary genre that expresses the author's rich emotions in highly concise language, reflects social life and has a certain rhythm and rhythm.
Poetry is a lyrical literary genre. Shi Mao-The Preface records that "the poet is where he wants to be, his heart is where he wants to be, and his words are poetry". Yan Yu's Poems on Canglang in the Southern Song Dynasty said: "A poet sings his temperament", and there is only one kind of art expressed in words, that is, poetry.
In ancient China, unhappy people were called poems and happy people were called songs. In modern times, they are generally called poems. Express social life and people's spiritual world according to certain syllable and rhythm requirements. The origin of poetry can be traced back to ancient times, and there are related documents in Yu Shun period.