Poetry advances with the origin and development of human beings. The origin of poetry is also closely related to ancient social life, and it progresses with the origin and development of human beings. In ancient times, the most important social activity of mankind was hunting to satisfy hunger, so the earliest poems about hunting appeared? Play the song in the Book of Songs:? Broken bamboo, continued bamboo; Flying soil, eating meat? It should be a record of hunting activities at that time. ? In this poem, breaking bamboo means cutting wild bamboo, spreading bamboo means receiving bow bamboo, and flying soil means that people can play mud bombs and chase their prey one by one. .
Obviously, primitive poetry came into being with the life of the ancients. In that age when survival was challenged, the only way for people to enrich their spiritual life was to sing these poems with labor. There is also a famous saying in history, specifically: a poet has a will. Have ambition in your heart and speak like a poem. Sigh if you don't have enough words, and sing forever if you don't have enough words. Without eternal songs, I don't know how to dance with my hands, but how to dance with my feet? . The meaning of this passage is that poetry is the expression and expression of people's inner emotional activities, which cannot be fully expressed by language alone, so there are poems.
It can be seen that the original function of poetry is to express people's inner feelings.