Chou Nuer, the middle wall of Shubo Mountain Road
Xin Qiji
The young man does not know the feeling of sorrow and falls in love with the upper floors. Falling in love with the upper floors, I force myself to express my sorrow in order to compose new words.
Now that I know all the sadness, I can’t stop talking. I wanted to give up, but I said it was a cool autumn.
Ancient poetry is a general term for ancient Han poetry. In terms of time, it refers to Chinese poetic works before the Opium War in 1840. From the perspective of meter, ancient poetry can be divided into ancient poetry and modern poetry. Taking the Tang Dynasty as the boundary, all poems in the past were ancient poetry. After that, ancient poetry gradually declined and died out. Ancient style poetry is also called ancient poetry or ancient style poetry; modern style poetry is also called modern style poetry. From the Book of Songs to Yu Xin in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, all poems can be considered ancient poetry, but poetry after the Tang Dynasty may not all be considered modern poetry, specifically due to the differences in meter, sound, and rhyme.
The number of words and lines of ancient poetry:
Ancient poetry has fixed lines and fixed styles. All ancient poems are classified according to the number of words in the verses. Those with four characters and one sentence are called four-character ancient poems, referred to as Sigu; those with five characters and one sentence are called five-character ancient poems, referred to as Wugu; those with seven characters and one sentence are called seven-character ancient poems, referred to as Qigu. Four-character poetry has been used by people as far back as the era of The Book of Songs. But it gradually declined in the Tang Dynasty, and few people wrote about it. Therefore, ancient poetry is still represented by five-character and seven-character poems.
Five-character ancient poetry is the orthodox form of ancient poetry and has been written by many people.
Seven-character ancient poetry is not the mainstream of ancient poetry. This is because it originated relatively late. Therefore, the seven-character style is greatly influenced by the seven-character modern poetry.
Five-character ancient poems and seven-character ancient poems are both ancient-style poems with a neat number of words. There is also a type of ancient poetry with miscellaneous words, in which the number of words in the lines is mixed and uneven.