The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems. It was written in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, so it can be regarded as the origin of real poetry.
The most glorious era of poetry is the Tang Dynasty.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, people and some literati began to write ci, and the ci style in the middle Tang Dynasty was basically established. In the late Tang and Five Dynasties, the degree of literati was strengthened, and the art became mature. Song Dynasty was the heyday of Ci.