Some people call poetry literature the crown of human literature, and the achievements of China's ancient poetry are undoubtedly the brightest pearl in this crown. China's poetry literature originated from The Book of Songs, and then Chu Ci was born. Are The Book of Songs and Songs of the South in China's poetry and literature? Realism? And then what? Romantic? The origin of two schools of thought.
Poems in The Book of Songs are mainly four-character poems, and then five-character poems and seven-character poems gradually appeared, which laid the foundation for the prosperity of Tang poetry. Most of the Tang poems we are familiar with now are five or seven words. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, literati began to have strict requirements on the rhyme and smoothness of poetry, which is modern poetry.
From Shen Quan and Song in the early Tang Dynasty to Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Wang Wei, Meng Haoran, Bai Juyi, Li Shangyin and Du Mu, the peak of ancient poetry and literature in China was formed. Although literati have been writing modern poems since the Tang Dynasty, Tang poetry is the highest in terms of achievement, so it has become a cultural symbol.
In the Song Dynasty, poets were somewhat embarrassed: the poems in the Tang Dynasty were not only well written, but also had a wide range of genres, so almost all the poets in the Song Dynasty had no poems to write, so the popular poems in the early Song Dynasty were all artificial and sensational Quincy, and the overall quality was very poor. But as the saying goes, there are many talents from all walks of life, each leading the way for hundreds of years. Poets in Song Dynasty are unwilling to take second place. Mei Yao Chen, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Su Shi and others were born one after another, which saved some face for the Song Dynasty. In addition, Song Hai-hai also summed up a set of poetic methods that can be learned and imitated, so that Song people can get rid of the shadow of the rule of Tang poetry. This is the Jiangxi Poetry School led by Huang Tingjian.
The Jiangxi Poetry School headed by Huang Tingjian is famous for learning from Du Fu, and the Jiangxi Poetry School represented by Chen, Zhu and Zhu swept the poetry circle in the Northern Song Dynasty, which had an impact on the poetry circle in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty. But Jiangxi Poetry School has one drawback, that is? How much knowledge and how little talent? Therefore, the Song people later abandoned the Jiangxi Poetry School, and successively gave birth to the Four Spirits School, the Jianghu School and other poetry schools, each of which was good at winning the game and safeguarded the face of Song poetry.
Generally speaking, Tang poetry pays more attention to lyricism, while Song poetry takes a different approach and pays more attention to reason and Taoism. In addition to the above poets, there are Lu You, Yang Wanli, Fan Chengda, Liu Kezhuang and Zhang. Generally speaking, it's actually quite good, but it's still a little dwarfed by Tang poetry.
In a word, the Tang poetry is the highest peak of China's ancient poetry, and the Song Dynasty is the orthodox dynasty closest to the Tang Dynasty. Faced with this peak, there can be no breakthrough, so we have to find another way. The poems and songs in the Song Dynasty are not bad, and there are not many poets in the Song Dynasty, but they are not as good as those in the Tang Dynasty.