On the Significance of Classical Poetry to Contemporary People or Society

The important role of classical poetry in contemporary people's spiritual life and contemporary cultural construction is fundamentally determined by its great ideological value and unparalleled artistic value. Almost any nation in the world, any language, has their poems, but different nationalities, different degrees of development of poetry, poetry in the spiritual life of different nationalities have different proportions. Poetry of many nationalities in the world has been in the primitive and natural development stage for a long time, and the truly highly developed poetry art is based on highly developed culture. Of course, the development of culture does not necessarily promote the development of poetry, there must be cultural factors suitable for poetry. From this point of view, our ancient culture in China is extremely rich in factors suitable for the development of poetry. Such as the worship of ritual and music civilization, the prosperity of landscape aesthetic activities, the civil service system and imperial examinations, are all important factors to promote the long-term prosperity and high development of poetry. The early achievements of China's poetry are brilliant. The three systems of the Book of Songs, Chu Ci and Han Yuefu Poems are the source and mother of later literati poems. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, literati poetry entered a period of highly conscious development. From that time to modern times, the poetry system with literati as the main body has been developing continuously. Its long history, numerous poets and profound influence on the whole social culture are really rare in the world. The classical poetry art created in this way has high aesthetic value and naturally does not need to be demonstrated. Since cultural history and literary history are inseparable, the importance of poetry as the essence of China traditional culture in contemporary people's spiritual life is naturally indisputable. Although, since the May 4th Movement, there has been the creation of new poetry, and its achievements are brilliant, but for more people, even among intellectuals, classical poetry still occupies a major position in people's poetry appreciation, Tao Qing governance and even social interaction. In a more popular way, that is to say, contemporary people still have a high demand for classical poetry.