Song Ci is a popular literary genre of Han nationality in Song Dynasty, and it is a new style poem compared with classical poetry, which marks the highest achievement of Song literature. Song ci has long and short sentences, which are easy to sing. Because it is the lyrics of music and harmony, it is also called tune, Yuefu, music movement, long and short sentences, poetry, piano music and so on. It began in Liang Dynasty, formed in Tang Dynasty and flourished in Song Dynasty. According to the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty, "Since the beginning of Kaiyuan (the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty), singers have mixed songs of Okoyi Lane." Song Ci is a bright pearl in the crown of ancient Chinese literature in China, and a fragrant and gorgeous garden in Yuen Long, an ancient Chinese literature. With colorful and varied charm, she competes with Tang poetry and Yuanqu, and has always been said to be as famous as Tang poetry, representing the prosperity of a generation of literature. Later, there was a book with the same name, Song Ci.
The representative figures of Song Ci mainly include Su Shi, Xin Qiji (uninhibited school), Liu Yong and Li Qingzhao. (Elegant School)
Yuan: Yuanqu
Yuanqu, also known as sandwich, is a popular literary form in the Yuan Dynasty, including zaju and Sanqu, and sometimes zaju. Zaju is a performance form characterized by funny in Song Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty developed into a form of China traditional opera, with 60% discount for each book and a wedge at the beginning or between folds. Each fold is composed of Bai Bin and Beiqu Suite with the same tone and rhyme. Such as Guan Hanqing's Dou Eyuan. Popular in Dadu (now Beijing) area. There are also dramas in Ming and Qing dynasties, but there is no limit to 60% discount per book. Sanqu is a popular music form in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it has no object. The content is mainly lyrical, including poems and essays.
Ming and Qing Dynasties: Zhang Hui's Novels
Zhang Hui's novel is a kind of China's classical novel, a vernacular novel with clear rules and regulations, and the main form of China's classical novel. Its main features are divided into titles, neat paragraphs and complete beginning and end. It was developed from storytelling in Song and Yuan Dynasties. To talk about history is to talk about history and the rise and fall of war stories, such as five kinds of Shanxi-Hunan dialect, five generations of historical Pinghua, Xuanhe legacy and so on. The speaker can't tell every story once or twice from beginning to end, he must tell it several times in succession, and each time is equal to the next time. Before each speech, the main content should be revealed to the audience with the title, which is the origin of Zhang Hui's novels. From the words that often appear in Zhang Hui's novels, such as "speaking", "reading officials" and "listening to the next chapter", we can see its inheritance relationship with the script.
Song He's story has taken shape as a novel. Long story books are large in length, and are divided into volumes and titles for the convenience of narration. Each section is marked with a title and order, which is the earliest form of novels. After a long period of evolution and perfection, the style of Zhang Hui's novels was formally formed in the late Ming Dynasty. The novels created in this period use neat even sentences (also useful single sentences) as regression to summarize the basic content of this paragraph. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a typical chapter novel. From Ming and Qing Dynasties to modern times, China's novellas generally took the form of chapters and chapters. Some modern and contemporary popular novels still use this form.