Poetry, also known as poetry, is a literary genre with a certain rhythm and rhythm, which uses highly concise language to vividly express the author's rich emotions and reflects social life.
Poetry is the ancestor of literature and the root of art.. Poetry is a literary genre that expounds the soul, while poets need to master mature artistic skills and express social life and human spiritual world with concise language, abundant emotions and rich images in a highly concentrated way according to certain requirements of syllables, tones and rhythms.
Confucius believes that poetry has four functions: arousing, observing, gathering and complaining.
Lu Ji thinks: "Poetry is beautiful because of emotion". In ancient China, those who were unhappy were called poems, and those who were happy were called songs.
In addition, The Book of Songs is also the original name of the ancient Chinese literary work The Book of Songs (The Book of Songs was named in the Western Han Dynasty). Classification of ancient poems
1. Classical poems
1. Chuci style
2. Yuefu style
3. Modern poems
1. "quatrains", each with four sentences, five words for short and seven words for short.
② "metrical poem", each with eight sentences, five words are abbreviated as five laws, seven words are abbreviated as seven laws, and those with more than eight sentences are called excluded laws (or long laws).
Third, words
Words: also known as poetry, long and short sentences, songs, songs, Yuefu, etc.
Fourth, Qu
Qu: Also known as Ci Yu and Yuefu. Yuanqu includes Sanqu and Zaju.