Primitive humans could not understand many natural phenomena, such as wind, electricity, thunder and rain, so they all attributed them to God. Out of awe, primitive people sang and danced to the gods.
Expressed people's expectations-good weather, abundant crops and so on. This is the origin of poetry. It originated from religion. There is another form, which comes from labor.
Primitive people made simple and rhythmic cries while working, so as to forget the temporary pain and spirit brought by labor and coordinate their actions. Gradually, this simple and rhythmic cry has developed into a poem that imitates the voice of labor itself and expresses the feelings of workers themselves.
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Poetry is a literary genre, which expresses social life and people's spiritual world with concise language, rich emotions and rich phenomena according to the requirements of certain syllables, tones and rhythms.
In ancient China, unhappy people were called poems and happy people were called songs. It exists in the cultural tradition of human beings, and we have always maintained lofty intentions for words such as "poetry", "lyricism" and "beauty".
Human beings not only have the ability to express their feelings, but also have this need, based on the need of survival. In this way, lyric poetry is not only an aesthetic problem, but also a survival problem, and lyric attitude has become a category of human existence.
With the development of civilization and the emergence of social division of labor, there have been "poets" who specialize in poetry. The division between poets and non-poets arises from this. Poetry and poets are always associated with some mysterious force.
The word "poem" comes from ancient China. In ancient times, rhymes with music accompaniment were called "songs" and rhymes without music accompaniment were called "poems". "Poetry" and "Song" were as close as twin brothers when they came into being.
The "Yuefu" produced in the Han Dynasty is also a kind of poetry that is suitable for music and can sing and dance well. At first, it was not a poem, but a musical organ founded by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Music is music and the government is the government. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established such an official government that was responsible for music, making music scores and collecting lyrics.
During the Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties, the poems sung by Yuefu were referred to as Yuefu for short. Since then, Yuefu has changed from the name of organ to the name of poem, which has been sung ever since. In the Tang Dynasty, modern poetry was formed, which is the general name of metrical poems and quatrains we have learned.
This kind of poem has a sense of rhythm. Law means that there are strict rules on the use of language. Rhyme is rhyme, which means that the main vowel at the end of a poem has syllables with the same or similar pronunciation So it forms a kind of musical beauty.
Another style, Ci, was formed in the Tang Dynasty. It sings in unison. Later, it prevailed in the Song Dynasty and developed into Sanqu in the Yuan Dynasty. It is a new style poem, and every song with music has certain metrical requirements and a title.
With the change of the times, new poems appeared. Free verse is not easy to compose, so the relationship between poetry and music is gradually alienated. But some excellent works still pay attention to the beauty of music. Because although there is no strict format, new poetry has rhythm.
Full of emotion and association, the language is concise and concise, and it reads like singing. From this point of view, whether it is ancient poetry, modern poetry or new poetry, it is closely related to songs. Poetry and song are inseparable in this way.
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