The seven-rhythm format is eight sentences in each poem, seven characters in each sentence, and a total of fifty-six characters. The rhyme requirement is that the second and fourth sentences must rhyme. That is, the final word of the last character is the same, and the rhymes and tones are also the same.
Seven-character rhymed poetry is a genre of traditional Chinese poetry, referred to as Qilu, and belongs to the category of modern poetry. It originated from the new-style poems of Shen Yue and others in the Qi Yongming Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, which paid attention to rhythm and parallelism. It was further developed and finalized in the early Tang Dynasty by Shen Quanqi and Song Zhiwen, and matured in the hands of Du Fu in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Rhyming rules of seven rhymes: eight sentences per poem, seven words per sentence, and a total of fifty-six words. Generally, every even sentence rhymes with a flat tone (the first sentence may or may not rhyme), with one rhyme to the end and no rhyme change in between.
The Qilu has four basic sentence patterns:
Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping, the last two characters are Ping Chou, which is called Ping Chou foot; Ping Ping Ping Ping Chou Ping, the last two characters are Ping Chou. If it is flat, it is called flat feet; if it is flat, the last two characters are flat, it is called flat feet; if it is flat, the last two characters are flat, it is called flat feet.
These four sentence patterns are the basis for the changes in the flat and oblique formats of rhymed poetry, thus forming the four basic formats of seven-character rhymed poetry.
Selected seven-character rhymed poems:
1. People in the past have gone by Yellow Crane, and the Yellow Crane Tower is vacant here. The yellow crane is gone and never returns, and the white clouds remain empty for thousands of years. Qingchuan is full of Hanyang trees, and the grass is luxuriant and Parrot Island is green. Where is the Rimu Township Pass? The smoke on the Yanbo River makes people sad. "Yellow Crane Tower" Cui Hao.
2. The wind is strong, the sky is high, the ape is howling in mourning, and the white bird is flying back from the clear sand in the desert. The endless falling trees rustled, and the endless Yangtze River rolled in. Wandering With Melancholy, a century on stage alone and sick. Difficulty and bitterness hate the frost on the temples, and the wine glass is stained by the new stop. "Ascend the High" by Du Fu.
3. It is difficult to say goodbye when we meet. The east wind is powerless and the flowers are withered. The spring silkworms will not run out of silk until they die, and the wax torch will not dry until it turns to ashes. The morning mirror is full of worry, but the clouds on the temples are changing, and the moonlight is cold when singing at night. There is not much way to get to Pengshan, and the blue bird is diligent in visiting. "Untitled" by Li Shangyin.
4. Suddenly it was said that Jibei was being collected outside the sword, and my clothes were filled with tears when I first heard it. But seeing where his wife is worried, she writes poems and books filled with joy and joy. To sing during the day, you need to indulge in alcohol. Youth is a good companion for returning home. That is to say, it passes through Wu Gorge from Ba Gorge and then goes down to Xiangyang towards Luoyang. "Wen Guanjun Takes Henan and Hebei" Du Fu.
5. At the end of the year, the yin and yang rush to short scenes, and the sky is frosty and snowy, and the night is cold. The sound of drums and horns at the fifth watch is solemn and solemn, and the shadow of the stars in the Three Gorges wavers. Thousands of families cried in the wild when they heard about the war, and fishermen and woodcutters sprang up in several places in Yige. The crouching dragon and the leaping horse end in the loess, and the human affairs news and books are full of loneliness. "Ge Night" by Du Fu.