An old-fashioned love song Yeh Chia-ying, a former professor in the Department of Chinese at National Taiwan University who now lives in Canada, points out that chanting played an important role in early poetry. Reciting their own poetry not only allowed the poets to vent their feelings, it also had a far greater impact on the audience.
旅居加拿大曾任教台大中文系的葉嘉瑩教授指出，詩歌的吟誦在傳統詩中扮演極重要的角色，除了詩人用吟詠詩歌來抒懷、言志，詩的吟詠對聽者的感受，也有莫大的影響。