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Pre-Qin: China's poetry produced a lot of brilliant chapters, which was marked by the appearance of the first book of poetry, The Book of Songs. Siyan
Han Dynasty: Literati's five-character poems gradually developed and matured, marked by Nineteen Ancient Poems which appeared at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Wei and Jin Dynasties: There were not many poems left in the Three Kingdoms and the Western Jin Dynasty, only poems by Ji Kang and others. There are more and more poems in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which have produced a large number of beautiful works. Tao Yuanming is praised by later generations for his fresh poetic style. In the Southern Dynasties, the style of writing was gorgeous, the poems were gorgeous, and a large number of allusions were used, among which Qi Liang's poems were the most prosperous. Poetry in the Northern Dynasties is simple and dignified, with Mulan Ci as the most important. During this period, a large number of poetry comments were produced, which played a great role in the content, thought and appreciation of poetry, such as Collection of Poems, Liu Xie's Wen Xin Diao Long, and Xiao Tong's Selected Works. Scholars in the Southern Dynasties put forward the theory of four tones and eight diseases, which had a great influence on later poetry creation and appreciation.
Sui and Tang Dynasties: During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the poetic style was extremely prosperous. In the early Tang Dynasty, it was famous for Yang Jiong, Lu, Luo and so on. During the autocratic period of Wu Zetian, the poems of Song and Shen Quanqi made great achievements, and finally formed quatrains and metrical poems. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, poetry flourished, and pastoral poems and frontier poems rose. Wang Wei and Meng Haoran are the most popular pastoral poems, while Cen Can and Gao Shi are the best frontier poems. Li Bai and Du Fu were the best poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Li Bai's Farewell to Meng Haoran on the Way to Yangzhou and Du Fu's A Car Shop added many clouds to the sky in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Poetry in the Middle Tang Dynasty was written by ten talented people in Dali, and Bai Juyi was another peak of China's poetry. His masterpieces include Song of Eternal Sorrow and Pipa. In the late Tang Dynasty, Du Mu and Li Shangyin made great achievements in poetry, worrying about the country and hurting the time.