History of poetry with five words and eight rhymes

The scope and rhyme of the topic are already wide, and it was not until the beginning of the Tang Xuanzong that the rhyme was stipulated. Song Renzong began to stipulate that topics must be based on history. Don't try poetry in the early years of Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In the twenty-second year of Qianlong (1757), he tried out five-character and eight-rhyme poems at the township meeting. The format restriction is stricter than that of the previous generation, and the topics are written in classics, history, poems, collections or predecessors' poems or idioms; The rhyme foot gives a word in each rhyme of Pingsheng, so candidates must be able to recite the words in each rhyme of Pingsheng; Repetition is not allowed in this poem; The tone must be solemn; The first two couplets must point out the words of the title, and use more words to praise the merits of the emperor.