Appreciate seven-character ancient poems with hard pen calligraphy, referred to as seven-character ancient poems for short. Among the ancient poems, it is a poetic form with the most lively form, the most diverse genre, the most free syntax and phonology, and the most expressive lyrical narrative. The whole poem consists of seven words or seven sentences. Simply put, it is long in length, large in capacity and flexible in rhyme. For example, Du Fu's seven-character ancient poem "Song of Lady Gong Sun's Female Student Dancing Knife" and "Song of General Cao's Drawing" and so on. The appearance of seven-character ancient poems provides a larger poetic form and enriches the artistic expression of China's classical poems.
Hard pen calligraphy is an excellent picture of seven-character ancient poems, which originated from folk songs. In the pre-Qin period, in addition to the seven-character sentences in The Book of Songs and Songs of the South, Xiangcheng Pian written by Xunzi is a kind of miscellaneous verse with seven characters as the main body, which is an imitation of folk songs. In the Western Han Dynasty, there were seven popular rhymes, such as Sima Xiangru's Fan Jiang and You's Jiupian, as well as Louhu Song and Shangjun Song contained in Hanshu.
The main characteristics of seven-character ancient poems