In time, ancient poetry refers to 1840 China's poems before the Opium War. From the perspective of meter, ancient poetry can be divided into ancient poetry and modern poetry. Taking the Tang Dynasty as the boundary, the previous poems were all ancient poems, and later, the ancient poems gradually declined and died out. Ancient poetry is also called ancient poetry or ancient style; Modern poetry is also called modern poetry. From the Book of Songs to Yu Xin in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they are all ancient poems, but the poems after the Tang Dynasty are not necessarily modern poems, but they are distinguished according to rhyme.
Modern poetry, also known as "vernacular poetry", is a kind of poetry. Compared with classical poetry, it is generally not restricted by format and rhythm. The discovery of modern poetry can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, some poems imported from the west began to be translated into vernacular Chinese, but these works were not very big, so little was known. 1953 used the name of modern poetry for the first time-it was established when Ji Xian founded the Modern Poetry Society. The main schools of modern poetry are Crescent School, kuya School and Misty School.