The source of China's traditional poetry is rural folk songs in the pre-Qin period, which belongs to popular literature. Confucius chose to cut it into words, but there was the Book of Songs. After the pre-Qin period, there appeared literati specializing in poetry creation, and China's traditional poetry also entered the ranks of elegant literature. Whether it is "Jian 'an Style" or "Yuefu in Han and Wei Dynasties", this elegant word is fully displayed.
Poetry in the late Tang Dynasty pushed China's traditional poetry to the peak of elegant literature. We might as well take this as a clue to review the rise and fall of China's traditional poetry and its internal reasons from the perspective of elegance and vulgarity and from the development of social culture and history.
In addition to the realistic Book of Songs, pre-Qin poetry has another kind of poetic style that represents romanticism. Qu Yuan and Song Yu are his representative writers, and Li Sao is one of them.
In the Han Dynasty, Yuefu Poetry, a poem sung with music, appeared. There are four words, five words and miscellaneous words in language, but most of them are five words. Later, the literati headed by Cao Cao and his son and Tao Yuanming developed five-character poems. At the same time, seven-character poems have also developed greatly. The representative works of Yuefu poetry & gt,<& lt Shang Mo Sang >> It has important literary value in the history of poetry.