The development of Chinese literature from the book “classic of poetry（詩經）“ to Yuan dynasty

There are many different forms of art in Chinese literature, and the book “Classic of poetry” would be considered one of the most influential and the first model of chinese literature.” Classical Chinese poetry comes in a variety of sophisticated, musical forms and styles.”(Crevel,2008)Being a country with around 5000 years of history, it is hard to imagine China wouldn’t have developed a consummate and enjoyable art. In many forms of art, poetry would be one of the most remarkable, splendid and extraordinary kinds, and in the book “Classic of poetry”, it marked the starting point of the history of chinese poetry. In the following paragraphs, few of the ages in which the most significant influences of poetry happened will be shown, namly the pre-Qin times, the six dynasties and the Tang dynasty ; and the development of poetry in chinese literature will be clearly shown.

“Classic of poetry”(詩經） was formed during the time from 770BC to 170BC and there are around 300 peices of poems inside.”the pervasive influence fo SHijing(book of poems) and its exegetical tradions on later writers and critics of poetry is universally recognized.”(Ashmore,2012) The reason why it is considered the starting point of chinese poetry is that it is the first book to gather all the poems and form it. By that time, ancient chinese scholars could base on this book to study and help with their understanding of poetry. It was also the first time for someone to classify type of poems. it establish the forms of poem and most importantly the definition of poetry; even nowadays, people still study the book to understand how poetry was before.

Pre-Qin times( before 221 BC)

The pre-qin times were the time that people start to write poems. At that time, poems w...

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...ess as the other poet, Su Shi, who is known as a Genius on chinese literature. Other than romanticism, Realism could be found on Du fu(杜甫), also known as “the saint of poetry”, by using various kinds of words, his poems were hard to understand yet very meaningful, many of his poems were expressing his Patriotic feelings and his worry about the poors people at the time. He is always being well-known in using short sentence to express a deep meaning, many of the scholars now are still studying his poems to find the true meaning inside.

All in all, the path of Chinese poetry was full of gifted poets and remarkable poems, from the “classic of poetry” to “Tangshi”(唐詩) in Tang dynasty; From Cao Cao(曹操) to Li bai (李白). Chinese literature is very complicated and aesthetic, as a part of chinese cultural, that is something that chinese people would like to show to the world.