China's poetry has a long history, which is more than 3,000 years from the Book of Songs. Tang Poetry and Song Poetry are two peaks in the history of China's poetry. China's poetry circle is very beautiful.
Poetry originated from ancient social life, which is a rhythmic and emotional language form due to labor production, sex and primitive religion. The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, with 305 poems in total, which are divided into three categories according to different music: style, elegance and ode.
Qu Yuan, a great poet of Chu Ci in the Warring States period, and Song Yu and others who were deeply influenced by him created a new poetic style of Chu Ci. Chuci developed the form of poetry. It broke the four-word form of The Book of Songs, from three or four words to five or seven words. In terms of creative methods, Chu Ci absorbed the romantic spirit of myth and opened up the creative road of romanticism in China literature.
Following the Book of Songs and Songs of the South, a new form of poetry appeared in the Han Dynasty, that is, the folk songs of Han Yuefu. There are more than 65,438+000 folk songs in Yuefu in Han Dynasty, many of which are five-character poems. Later, the intentional imitation of classical writers became the main form of poetry in Wei and Jin Dynasties.
Poetry developed into the Tang Dynasty and ushered in a highly mature golden age. Nearly 300 years ago, the Tang Dynasty left nearly 50,000 poems, and there were about 50 or 60 famous poets with unique styles.
Ci reached its peak in the Southern Song Dynasty, Sanqu prevailed in the Yuan Dynasty, but poetry took a back seat. Poetry in Ming Dynasty moved forward in the repetition of imitation and anti-imitation, and there were no outstanding works and poets.