Seven-character quatrains in praise of poetry

The seven verses of praise in the poem are as follows:

Xi Shi (Tang) Luoyin

Why do Wu people complain about history when the country rises and falls?

If history overthrew the State of Wu, who would be the dead of the State of Yue?

Comment: This poem is Shi Zhengming's name, telling us that Wu's death was not a honey trap.

Xi Shi (Tang) Li Bai

Shi, a woman from China, was born in Ramie Mountain.

Her charm has been passed down to this day, and Lotus sees her shyness.

She moved the green water in the stream near Bianxi, as leisurely as clear water.

It is rare to see her smile and show her white teeth, because she is reflected in a weak voice.

Gou Jian, the King of Yue, collected national colors and raised eyebrows at the history of Wu.

She was loved by the king of Wu and placed in the palace of the Children's Palace.

Wu was defeated, and Wu never returned for a thousand years.

Wu Meiyin Xi Shi (Qing) Cao Xueqin

A generation of the whole city chased the waves, and Wu Gongkong recalled his son's family.

The effect is not to laugh at the women in the east village, but to wear gauze on the west side of the head.

Midnight Wu Ge Xia Ge (Tang) Li Bai

On the mirror lake, there are more than 300 miles, all of which are Ke and Ke.

Lunatone is picking lotus here, and all the people who come to see him are very anxious.

Less than a month after returning home, she was elected to the palace.

Xishitan (Tang)

Treacherous court official Wu Wang destroyed Wu, but the notoriety was on stone.

Back in those days, that Hu Shui rolled and sounded like a beautiful woman.

Genre evolution:

The quatrains originated from the short chapters of Yuefu in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, and their names may come from the "couplets" written by literati in the Six Dynasties. According to the literature, there was a custom of writing poems in the banquets of literati in the Six Dynasties, and each person wrote four sentences and five words to synthesize a whole poem. If you cut off what everyone has done and do a separate article, it is called "unique skill", and the name of the quatrains comes from this.

The absolutely unique concept of four sentences is naturally formed. Since the Book of Songs, most poems have taken four sentences as a paragraph. The poems in The Book of Songs are mostly four words and four sentences, which the ancients called "a chapter". During the Han and Wei Dynasties, there were very few four-sentence poems as a whole, so it is not necessary to define four-sentence poems as poetic nouns, that is to say, four-sentence poems did not become the standard.

However, in a long poem, the creative method of four sentences is naturally formed. After the Jin and Song Dynasties, due to the influence of folk songs, poets liked to imitate four folk songs, and a large number of small poems with five words and four sentences appeared. After the Qi and Liang Dynasties, four sentences and one absolutely became the norm of poetry and were given the name "absolutely". The "broken sentences", "short sentences" and "quatrains" in the Southern Dynasties are all used to refer to poems with five words and four sentences.