Dear friends who major in Chinese language and literature? I would like to ask, are the two courses, Modern Chinese Basics and Ancient Chinese Basics, helpful for poetry creation?

Modern Chinese Foundation and Ancient Chinese Foundation were two courses that were helpful for poetry creation. The modern Chinese foundation course mainly teaches Chinese characters, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, rhetoric and other aspects of knowledge to help students master the basic expression ability of Chinese. This basic knowledge was very important for the creation of poetry because Chinese characters and vocabulary were the foundation of poetry. The correct writing of Chinese characters and vocabulary accumulation could provide powerful support for the expression of poetry. The Ancient Chinese Foundation course mainly taught the history, culture, and language evolution of the Chinese language to help students understand the evolution of the Chinese language and better understand the cultural background of ancient poetry and the emotional expression of the author. In addition, learning the basics of ancient Chinese can also help students master some ancient poetry skills and rhetorical methods such as metaphor, personification, antithesis, etc. These skills and methods are also very important in poetry creation. Therefore, learning the basics of modern Chinese and ancient Chinese is helpful for students of Chinese language and literature to improve their poetry creation ability.