ON THE HISTORICAL CAUSES OF THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN CHINESE POETRY

Abstract

Classical poetry, which considered elegance as the main criterion and had strict metrical standards and traditional aesthetic requirements, gave way to popular poetry, free from existing rules, which began to have its own new aesthetic principles. This process of changes passed from one literary stream to another like a relay: the patriotic poetic stream that appeared at the beginning moved to a new poetry stream, then to a revolutionary poetry stream, and finally, active participants of the "May 4" literary and cultural movement and poetry completely it reached the writers who were supporters of the transfer to the Baihua language. And thus, the long and complex period of early evolution of Chinese poetry came to an end. The article presents some opinions about the historical roots of the process of transformations in Chinese poetry.