China's poetry has a diversified development history of thousands of years, from the initial labor chant, through the songs of Chu in the Book of Songs, the poems of Tang and Song Dynasties and Yuan Qu, to the modern new poetry after the May 4th Movement. Its art of ideological expression and language display has never deviated from the original track of China traditional culture, serving social development and being accepted by the people. The function of learning and using poetry is mainly manifested in the following aspects: understanding Chinese language and inheriting Chinese culture. Poetry is one of the concrete manifestations of language and literature and an important part of the national culture of the motherland.
China's poetry, as a literary genre of China culture, has been rooted in the society, participated by the broad masses of people and promoted by social literati during thousands of years of social development, and has inherited the cultural tradition of China from beginning to end, which is an important symbol of the accumulation and development of the language and culture of the motherland. Through the study and application of poetry, learners can clearly understand the long historical process of China's language and culture development; Recognize the glory and profoundness of the traditional and ancient language and culture of the motherland; Understanding China's poetry culture has a profound humanistic foundation, profound ideological background, diverse types of systems and colorful artistic techniques that western poetry culture can't match; And then shoulder the historical responsibility of inheriting and developing China's traditional language and culture, and push China culture to the world in the process of promoting the development of the motherland's language and culture and international exchanges.