The term "pastoral" is explained as follows:

"Pastoral" is a type of lyric poetry, which originated from a type of poetry in ancient Greece that described the life of shepherds or rural life. The poem is short in length and sings about the tranquility and leisureliness of rural life to express the feeling of being satisfied with life in this world.

The earliest pastoral author is Theocritos, a poet from the Hellenistic era. His poems reflect people’s disappointment and disgust with urban life, and their hope to follow the idealized pastoral world. rural. More than 20 poems have been handed down, which had a certain influence on later European poetry creation.

Representative works of "Pastoral"

In 37 BC, the collection of pastoral poems "Pastoral" was published. It consists of 10 short songs in the form of antiphons or solo songs, including love poems. , Elegies, philosophical poems, and poems to reward friends.

"Pastoral" explores the origin of the world, involves history, reality, and the future, expresses politics and farming, officials, and herdsmen, and has a broad artistic vision. It was also influenced by the writing style of the time, and occasionally contained traces of artificiality. However, he was able to integrate gorgeous mythology, warm lyricism and simple customs. The poems were fresh and smooth, and the phonology was beautiful, which had a profound influence on later generations of poetry.

In addition to traditional pastoral creations during the Renaissance era, pastoral novels and pastoral dramas with similar themes to pastoral songs also appeared. Later generations called the lyric poems describing rural life scenes pastoral songs.