Poetry should be divided into four categories: narrative poetry (such as Mulan's poems and Homer's epics), lyric poetry (such as most of China's ancient poems and When You Are Old), philosophical poetry (such as "I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, but toward which corner of the mountain") and object-chanting poetry (such as "singing willow").
Classification by subject
Love poems, also known as "love songs" and "poems that will always be in my heart", such as Merging Poems, Farewell to the Cowherd Star, Untitled (Li Shangyin, long before I met her, but after we parted), Queqiao Fairy (Qin Guan, a clever book with sparse clouds) and so on.
Satire poems, also known as allegorical poems, are sometimes called political satire poems, such as Storytelling, Cutting Tan, Bees (Tang Luoyin), Lin 'an Mansion (Lin Sheng in Southern Song Dynasty), Drunk Taiping (sneering at those who are greedy for small profits) and so on.
Philosophical poems, such as Su Shi's Poems of Xilin Wall, Poems of Qin Dynasty, Zhu's Reading Experience, etc.
Farewell poems, also known as "landscape farewell poems", include Ren Shuchuan (Wang Bo) who bid farewell to Du Shaofu, Meng Haoran's way to Yangzhou (Li Bai) and two poems by Biedong University (Gao Shi).
Travel poems are also called fairy poems, travel poems and landscape poems. This is slightly different from pure landscape poetry, mainly "lyrical". For example, Du Fu's Wandering Night and Ma Zhiyuan's Qiu Si are not landscape poems.
Frontier poems, such as Ge Yanxing by Gao Shi, Bai Xuege Farewell to the Home of Tian Li Wu, Wang Zhihuan's Liangzhou Ci, Wang Changling's Out of the Frontier, and the Fisherman's Pride by Fan Zhongyan in the Song Dynasty.
Poems on things, Ban Gu's poems on things, eight poems on things by Zuo Si in the Western Jin Dynasty, Jia Sheng by Li Shangyin, Tiaojiang Pavilion by Du Mu, Wen De, etc.
Poems about things, such as Wang Wei's Acacia (when those red plums come in spring), Li Bai's Egret, Du Fu's Returning Wild Goose, Lu You's Yongmei, Yu Qian's Poem about Lime, Wang Mian's Mo Mei and so on.
Poems chanting for the bosom, such as Qu Yuan's Lisao and Crossing the River, Li Bai's Difficult Walk and Entering the Wine, Chen Ziang's Youzhou Tower, Su Shi's Meet on the Shahu Road, and Lu You's Book Wrath, etc.
Nostalgia poetry evokes feelings and expresses feelings and ambitions through association and imagination hanging on historical sites. Although it belongs to nostalgia poetry, it has unique characteristics. Nostalgic poems are slightly different from epic poems. Nostalgic poems express their wishes by immersing themselves in historical sites, and historical poems can be created in the study without visiting historical sites. Nostalgic poems include Du Fu's Shu Xiang, Liu Yuxi's Wu Yi Xiang, Stone Town, Li Bai's Ascending the Phoenix Terrace in Nanjing, Su Shi's Niannujiao Chibi Nostalgia and Xin Qiji's Forever.
Landscape poetry and pastoral poetry