Poetry is a large literary style, which requires a highly concentrated summary and reflection of social life, rich thoughts, feelings and imagination, concise and vivid language and a certain rhythm. Generally speaking, it first appeared in various literary genres. Poetry is divided into narrative poems and lyric poems according to whether there are stories, metrical poems and free poems according to whether there are rhymes, and rhyming poems and blank poems according to whether there are rhymes.
Poetry in modern Chinese is interpreted as a literary genre of lyrical expression. Mao's "Preface to Poetry" said: "Poets are ambitious. Have ambition in your heart and speak like a poem. " Song Yan's Poems on Canglang said: "Poets also chant temperament". In ancient China, unhappy people were called poems and happy people were called songs. In modern times, they are collectively called poetry. There is only one art expressed in words: poetry.
In ancient times, information technology was underdeveloped, and it was very inconvenient for people to transmit information from one area to another, so they compiled written poems into songs, and poems came from people's mouths; Poetry originated from ancient social life, which is a rhythmic and emotional language form due to labor production, sex and primitive religion. "Shangshu Yu Shu": "Poetry expresses ambition, song expresses Tao, sound is eternal, law and harmony." "Rites and Music": "Poetry expresses ambition; Song, chanting its voice; Dance, move its capacity; The three are based on the heart, and then the instrument follows it. " In the early days, poetry, song, music and dance were integrated. Poetry is the lyrics, which are always sung with music and dance in actual performances. Later, poetry, song, music and dance developed independently and became independent adults. Poems and songs are collectively called poems.
Poetry is the oldest and most literary style, which comes from ancient labor songs (later developed into folk songs) and sacrificial eulogy. Poetry used to be a general term for poetry and songs, and poetry combined with music and dance was called poetry. China's poems have a long history and rich heritage, such as The Book of Songs, Songs of the South, Han Yuefu and the works of countless poets. European poetry originated from Homer and Sappho in ancient Greece, Virgil and Horace in ancient Rome.