What's the difference between poetry and folk songs?

Liu Zeng talked about the relationship between ballads and poetry in his Essays: "There was language in ancient times, followed by writing. There is a voice first, then a little painting, a proverb, and then a poem. " Folk songs and proverbs rhyme. "As the saying goes, Xun is just a song, and singers always say it." As the saying goes, "proverb" means what the speaker says. "Long before language came into being, the sound of" Yu Hang Yu Hang "was the bud of poetry and a kind of" pregnant language ". After this ambiguous voice was replaced by language, a new artistic language came into being, which is a proverb.

"storytelling" is the original "song" It needs no accompaniment. It's just a random rhyme. Er Ya Shi Le: "Songs are ballads."

Proverbs are different from ballads. They are a word-of-mouth language and the crystallization of life experience. Since it is a "rumor", it must stand the test of time, and "ballad" is sung temporarily, which has the limitation of time, and the things sung and the feelings expressed have specific contents. "Ballads or proverbs" are mostly rhyming phrases. There is affection in "ballads" and reason in "proverbs".

There are ballads and proverbs, and then there are poems. Songs are the development of ballads, while poems are the evolution of proverbs. The original "poem" and "song" are different, and the characteristics of songs are in tone. Shuowen: "Singing and chanting" is the most direct means for human beings to express their feelings. Poetry is developed by inheriting the tradition of reciting proverbs. Therefore, the ancients said that poetry was "ambition", and Shangshu Shundian said: "Poetry expresses ambition".

The so-called "ambition" means "remembering", and today's note: "ambition, remembering also." Keeping it in mind is "ambition", and expressing it in words is "poem". Preface to Mao's poems: "Heart is ambition, words are poetry". Therefore, the original poem should be regarded as a rhythmic and rhythmic artistic language with the function of remembering things and taking notes to help memory. The function of songs is to express emotions, and the function of poems is to record; Song focuses on expressing subjectivity, while poetry focuses on reproducing objectivity. But sometimes poetry and song are not inseparable, so sometimes they are mixed together: "poetry".