Chuci: As a poetic style, Chuci has rich imagination. Witchcraft is prevalent in Chu, and witches are often used to dress up as gods and perform some myths and legends to entertain them. All these have cultivated the rich imagination of Chu people, and made their works full of romantic colors with rich imagination, gorgeous language and gorgeous style, such as Li Sao and Nine Songs.
2. Han (Fu)
Han Fu: The Han Dynasty was the most prosperous period of this style of Fu, so it was called Han Fu ~
Fu is a unique literary form in China. It has the characteristics of both prose and verse, and its main nature is to spread stories without singing or reciting. The formation and development of Fu went through a long process, which came into being at the end of the Warring States Period and was greatly influenced by military strategists and Chu Ci, reaching its peak in the Han Dynasty. Although it still developed after the Han Dynasty, it appeared in the Six Dynasties and the Tang Dynasty.
3. Tang (Poetry)
Tang Poetry: The system of poems and songs in the Tang Dynasty is diverse, and the whole China classical poetry after the Song Dynasty is not within its scope. Ancient poems in Tang Dynasty can be lyrical, narrative or argumentative. Due to the influence of modern poetry, ancient poetry in Tang Dynasty is different from the pure nature of ancient poetry before Jin and Song Dynasties. The five ancient poems in the early Tang Dynasty still inherited the variant of Qi Liang. After Chen Ziang's political reform, Zhang Jiuling and Li Bai inherited the variant of Qi Liang. For Du Fu, the seven-character rhythm poem is a parallel track of wild songs and ancient poems, a song of elegance and integrity and a song of legalism. Yuefu is a special kind of ancient poetry. In the Tang Dynasty, Yuefu broke up in discord, or wrote new ideas with old names, or created new names to remember new things. Li Bai, Du Fu, Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi have the highest achievements. By the time of Shen, Song and Zhou, someone had written it. Through the development of Wang Wei, Gao, Cen and others, Du Fu's realm has been greatly expanded. Since then, pentatonic and heptasyllabic rhymes have developed in parallel. Jia Dao, Yao He, Xu Hun and Zhao Wei, the top ten talents in Dali, are all masters of rhythm. By the end of the Tang Dynasty, the beauty of timbre and language skills of Li Shangyin's Seven Rhymes had developed to a more mature position.
4. Song
Song Ci is a new style poem that can be sung with music, but pays attention to meter. It includes three elements: Yan music, folk songs and modern poetry meter. It is a new literary form with strong musicality, beautiful rhythm and strong flavor of life. Ci is closely related to poetry, which can be divided into two schools: bold and graceful.
Words have epigrams, which are produced in the following ways: (1) imitating the titles of ancient Yuefu poems or music; Such as "Six States Song Tou"; Name the words in several people's poems, such as Xijiangyue; According to a historical figure or allusion, such as Nian Nu Jiao; There are also famous self-made epigrams, which are gradually separated from music and become an independent style.
5. Yuan (Qu)
Yuanqu: Yuanqu has strict metrical formula, and the sentence pattern, number of words, level and so on of each qupai have fixed format requirements. However, although there is a frame, it is not rigid, allowing lining in the frame, and some qupai can also add sentences. Therefore, readers can find that two songs of the same "Qupai" sometimes use different words, which is the reason. (In the same qupai, the number of words is the highest.
6. Ming and Qing Dynasties (novels)
Novels: In terms of ideological connotation and theme expression, novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties contain the essence of traditional culture to the greatest extent. Through secular illustrations, traditional culture has entered thousands of households with emotional images and touching stories. Traditional culture provided rich nutrients for novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties carried forward and enriched traditional culture as never before, and creatively explained it in the derivation of artistic image and artistic details.
As far as subject matter is concerned, novels in Ming and Qing dynasties are all-encompassing and unprecedented. The novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties fully showed the social relations and lifestyle of that era, and expressed people's feelings and ideals. The characteristics of narrative literature and popular literature make the expression of literature on social life unprecedented in breadth and depth. The emergence of urban economy and citizen class, new values and new social ideals have injected new ideological connotation into literature.
Rich themes and diverse contents are the outstanding characteristics of novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties. In addition to historical romance, the legend of heroes, and magical novels that reflect life in a magical way, the author's brushwork is closer to real life. The appearance of the world love novels, which directly express social feelings and human feelings, is a major breakthrough in the development of novel themes and marks a new stage in the mature development of novel creation.