How did ancient poetry evolve? What is the origin and development of poetry?

1. The origin of poetry.

Primitive humans, right.

Many natural phenomena, such as wind, electricity, thunder, rain, etc., cannot be understood, so they all attribute all of them to the gods. Out of awe, primitive humans sang and danced odes to the gods, expressing people's expectations - good weather, good harvests, and so on. This is the origin of poetry.

2. The development of poetry.

As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period, a large number of exquisite folk songs appeared, most of which were related to the love between men and women in labor production. In order to understand the customs of the people, the rulers at that time took the initiative to collect these folk songs and compile them into a collection, which produced the first poetry collection in China.

In the Wei and Jin dynasties, it was the three Cao, the seven sons of Jian'an, the so-called Jian'an style and bones, who expressed most of the short life, the ambition is difficult to reward, the artistic conception of sadness and resentment is relatively grand, and they have very distinct personal charm characteristics.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the style of poetry reached a new heyday. There were geniuses such as Sijie in the early Tang Dynasty, and later in the Wu Zetian period, Song Zhiwen Shen Yan found through continuous research that if poems were created according to a certain scale law, better sound effects would be achieved, so they laid the problem of the rhythm of quatrain poems.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, many poets also began to write lyrics, which paved the way for Song poetry.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, there were basically no good poems, but there were such grandmasters as Li Yu and Feng Yanji, the masters of the Tang Dynasty. Later, in the Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu, Su Dongpo, Liu Yong, Li Qingzhao, Xin Qiji, etc., once again pushed Song Ci to the pinnacle of art.

1. The origin of poetry.

1. Sacrifice. Our ancestors, primitive humans, could not understand many natural phenomena, such as wind, electricity, thunder, rain and other natural phenomena, as well as disasters, such as landslides, landslides, floods, etc., so they all attributed all this to the gods. These phenomena are instructions, warnings, or punishments from the gods to humans.

Primitive humans sang and danced to express their praise and reverence for the gods, and expressed people's wishes and begging—such as peace and health, good weather, and a good harvest. This sacrificial language, which was originally a simple monosyllabic roar, gradually evolved into songs with various clear meanings with the development of human language, which is one of the origins of poetry.

2. Labor production.

In the primitive labor production, whether it is hunting, resisting the invasion of foreign races and wild beasts, transforming the living environment, resisting the harm of nature, etc., many people often need to work together.

In order to better carry out and accomplish the goal of labor production, it is necessary to have the same rhythm and coordinated movements during labor, so a kind of labor horn was invented, which developed from the initial roar to the later ballad, and this ballad evolved into another origin of poetry. It not only has the effect of adjusting the rhythm of labor, but also can adjust the taste of labor, regulate people's psychology, relieve fatigue and invigorate the spirit.

2. Development. The Tang Dynasty was a land of poetry, and there were many poets. Such as Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, and Luo Binwang, who are known as the "Four Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty"; Cen Shen, Gao Shi, and Wang Zhilian, who are famous for their poems; Meng Haoran, who is known for his landscape poems; In particular, Li Bai, who is known as a poet, Du Fu, a poet, and Bai Juyi, a popular poet, etc., are like brilliant stars, glorious for thousands of years.

The development of poetry in the Tang Dynasty reached its peak. Five-word poems, seven-word poems, and miscellaneous poems are like flowers in the Wanfang Garden, competing with each other. In particular, a new form of poetry has emerged, metrical poetry, which is even more dazzling.

Lyric poetry is a type of poetry that has strict requirements for rhythm. It has strict rules on the number of words and sentences in the psalms, the use of rhyme, the evenness of the tone, the battle of words, and so on. This poetic genre is unprecedented.

In order to show the difference from ancient style poems, the Tang Dynasty called them near-style poems or modern style poems. Poetry is a representative of Tang poetry, which has been inherited by poets of later generations. Although there are many excellent poems in the poems after the Tang Dynasty, there are basically no major new breakthroughs.

The development process of ancient poetry is: Book of Poetry, Chu Ci, Yuefu, Fu, Ci, Tang Poetry, Song Ci, and Yuan Qu.

Following the Book of Songs, in the fourth century BC, a new style of poetry appeared in the state of Chu, called "Chu Ci", and its founder was Qu Yuan. Later, the Han Dynasty compiled the works written by Qu Yuan, Song Yu and others into a book called "Chu Ci". "Chu Ci" developed into five sentences and seven sentences.

In the Han Dynasty, there were poems sung to match **, that is, "Yuefu poems". There are four, five, and miscellaneous words in the language, but most of them are five-word.

In the Wei and Jin dynasties, due to the influence of Indian Sanskrit phonology, China's phonology was developed. Qi Liang's Zhou Qiao and Shen Yue summarized the pronunciation rules of Chinese characters and put forward the theories of "four tones" and "eight diseases", which made the creation of poetry develop from natural sound rhythm to pay attention to the pursuit of sound rhythm, and the nature of paying attention to level and rhyme in poetry appeared, forming the main content of rhythmic poetry.

The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of the development of poetry in China, and it was the first era of classical poetry, and there were two kinds of classifications: one is ancient style poetry, also known as ancient style, the so-called ancient style poetry refers to the imitation of the traditional poetry style before the Tang Dynasty, without a certain rhythm, the length can be long or short, and the rhyme is relatively free, and the number of words in the sentence is neat and untidy, which is mainly divided into two types: five-word ancient style and seven-word ancient style.

The second is near-style poetry, also called today-style poetry, that is, rhythmic poetry. Near-style poems have strict requirements in terms of length, rhyme, evenness, and combat. Basically, it can be divided into two types: rhyme and quatrain. Lyric poems and quatrains are divided into five and seven words, and the rhyme poems with more than eight verses are called rows.

In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, a new genre was derived from poetry, which was most developed in the Song Dynasty, which is the word. Since words are derived from poems, words are also called "poems". Due to the varying number of words in sentences, the ancients also called them "long and short sentences".

In the Yuan and Ming dynasties, a new genre appeared, called qu, also known as loose song. The song can be said to be another body of words, except for the different accompanying instruments when singing, it is closer to the spoken language in language, and the most prominent feature is that it can be lined with words.