1. Interpretation
Rhyme poetry is a Han poetry genre that became popular in the Tang Dynasty. It is a type of modern poetry and is named after its very strict metrical requirements. There are three common types: Five Rhythm, Seven Rhythm and Pai Rhythm. Rhymed poetry is a valuable asset of Han literature and is of great significance. It usually consists of a few words and a few words.
2. Characteristics
Rhythmic poetry originated from Shen Yue's new style poems in the Qi Yongming period of the Southern Dynasty that emphasized rhythm and parallelism. By the early Tang Dynasty, the generalized five rhymes began to appear, and Shen Quan period in the Wu and Zhou Dynasties , Song Zhiwen finalized Qilv in a narrow sense, which matured in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. Rhymed poetry requires the number of words in the poems to be uniform, and each poem is composed of five or seven character sentences, referred to as Wulu or Qilu. The usual rules for verses are 8 lines each. More than 8 sentences, that is, more than 10 sentences, are called row rules or long rules. Usually, a rhythmic poem is completed with 8 sentences, and every 2 sentences form a couplet, totaling four couplets. It is customary to call the first couplet the first couplet (the first couplet), the second couplet the jaw couplet, the third couplet the neck couplet, and the fourth couplet the conclusion. (Tail couplet). The upper and lower sentences of the second and third couplets (i.e. chin couplets and neck couplets) of each poem are usually antithetical sentences. Except for the first and last couplets, the middle couplets must be in contrast to each other. Rhymed poetry requires that the entire first line rhyme, and rhythmic poetry usually rhymes with flat tones; the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth lines rhyme, and the first line may or may not rhyme. Rhythm poetry in the broad sense allows loss of cohesiveness, but rhythm poetry in the narrow sense does not allow loss of cohesion. There are two styles: "Zhiqi" and "Pingqi". In addition, the metrical requirements of verse also apply to quatrains.
Rhymed poetry in the broad sense is very tolerant. It allows the existence of oblique patterns and three square tails. Cui Hao's Yellow Crane Tower is a typical representative.
3. Form
The rhythm of rhythmic poetry is very strict, with strict regulations on the number of sentences, the number of words, rhyme, rhythm, and opposition:
(1 ) Each poem is limited to eight sentences: the Five Rules stipulate that each sentence has five words, and the whole poem has 40 characters; the Seven Rules stipulates that each sentence has seven words, and the whole poem has 56 words.
(2) Limit the use of plain rhyme, and one rhyme to the end, and no rhyme changes are allowed in the middle. For the five-rhythm, if the first sentence does not fall into rhyme, it is a normal example, and if it does, it will be a variation; for the seven-rhythm, if the first sentence does not rhyme, it will be a regular example, and if it does not, it will be a variation.
(3) There are regulations on the sentence structure and the level of the words in each sentence: pay attention to adhesion and pairing.
(4) The number of antithetical couplets in each poem can be as many as three or as few as one. This is an important feature of regular verse.