The excellent tradition of China's poetry is

The Book of Songs and Songs of the South are two schools of realism and romanticism in China's classical poetry.

The Book of Songs is the first collection of poems in China, which comprehensively shows the social life in the Zhou Dynasty (Western Zhou Dynasty, Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Eastern Zhou Dynasty Spring and Autumn Period) and truly reflects the historical outlook.

Some of these poems, such as Daya, record the birth of Hou Ji to the demise of King Wu, which is a historical narrative poem of the Zhou Dynasty.

There are also many that reflect people's lives.

It is the starting point of China's realistic literature.

Because of its rich content and high ideological and artistic achievements, it occupies an important position in the cultural history of China and even the world.

It initiated the excellent tradition of China's poetry and exerted an indelible influence on later literature.

The influence of The Book of Songs has transcended the national boundaries of China and spread to the whole world.

The Book of Songs has always been a must-read textbook for later enlightenment, and it has been cited and developed by scholars of all ages, including many famous sentences and proverbs.

Chuci, also known as "Chuci", is a poetic style created by Qu Yuan during the Warring States Period.

The works use Chu's writing style and dialect rhyme to describe Chu's mountains and rivers and historical customs, which has strong local characteristics.

In the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang compiled Qu Yuan's works and Song Yu's works "Cheng Qu Fu" into a collection called Songs of the South.

It became a collection of poems that had a far-reaching influence on China literature after The Book of Songs.

It is also China's first collection of romantic poems.

It not only created the later Fu style, but also influenced the prose creation of past dynasties, which can be said to be the source of China's positive romantic poetry creation.