Let's first look at how the ancients named poems.
The original poem has no title, even in the very mature period of the Book of Songs. The poems contained in The Book of Songs are all named after the first two or three words of the poem, such as "Guan Ju" and "Jia Jian".
The same is true of other styles, such as The Analects of Confucius and Mencius, which are actually named after the previous two or three words. This shows that at that time, the boundaries between poetry and other styles were not so clear. For the ancients, shouting two voices was short and rhyming, recording and singing. It doesn't rhyme. It's long. Write it down slowly, recite it and turn it into prose.
The books of our ancestors are all very interesting. Guanzi, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Mencius are all honorifics for the middle forces of literature. In fact, many articles in them are not my own works, and China people have never been aware of copyright in spreading knowledge. Just watch, even if it is mixed in the classics of predecessors. So, nobody cares about names.
The truly mature poem title probably originated from the Songs of Chu in the Warring States Period. The name is not much different from today's, but there are two kinds: one is suggestive content, such as, Mrs. Xiang; Another is the name of the sport, Nine Songs and so on.
At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang's "Wind Song", Zhuo Wenjun's "White-headed Song" and Ban Jieyu's "Complaining Song" combined the two categories into one, which not only explained the singing style, but also explained the content of the song. But among the people, they are basically too lazy to take it. Nineteen ancient poems, for example, have no title.
After the development of the Han Dynasty, poetry began to be separated from music, and it was no longer only used for singing, but only for "recitation". Really get rid of the control of the title of Han Yuefu is in the hands of Cao Zhi, a very talented person. At this time, it was the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the literati began to be independent and no longer attached to music, so the words should have their own titles. "To Ding Yi" and "To RoyceWong" are close to later poems.
This is the emergence of a real poetic title.
Naming is mainly reflected in suggesting the content or use of poetry from different angles. For Jiao Zhongqing's wife, and later sent a message to Meng Haoran and Li Bai belong to this category. A little more complicated, "Farewell to Meng Haoran on the way to Yangzhou" even gave the reasons for giving poems.
This is also the naming method of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Climbing to the Top and Looking at Spring, and a note to a friend in the North on a rainy night all belong to this category, but the titles are gradually refined, such as Coming to Lintao to Stay in Beiting, and I heard that Wang Changling moved to Longbiao Kiln for this reason, and the reasons are becoming more and more clear. However, people don't pay much attention to this title. Basically, the poems are familiar, but the topics are not clear.
In the Song Dynasty, appellation gradually had the flavor of usurping the role of master. The poet thought of a solution to this problem, that is, writing preface. There is a poem in front, which introduces all aspects of the work in detail in some words. But although these things are written there, they will not affect the integrity of the poem, which means that you don't have to start from the preface when you appreciate the text. For example, Dongpo's "Water Tune Song Tou" has few examples.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the title became longer and longer. Of course, it is not a common phenomenon, but this new naming method has appeared. For example, Qian's "Eight Rhymes of Jinling Qiuxing Caotang, the First Work in July", "The Ugliness of the Apocalypse was cut in May, and he boarded the ship from Liuhe to the south for two months, and Fang Dajing was gracious and became ten", which is really a better than one.
According to this development trend, should we write a poem now? "When I have nothing to do after dinner, I can't help but write a few hundred words to help me digest and lament that I don't have enough for dinner."
Then the text is a five-line cross. Will it be beaten?
Having said that, it just means that you really want to write quatrains and metrical poems, because metrical poems are the soul of Tang poetry, so let's name them in the way of Tang Dynasty. Simple, concise and general.