1. Different definitions:
Ancient poetry is a genre of ancient Chinese poetry, also known as ancient poetry or ancient style. It refers to the modern poetry that emerged before the Tang Dynasty and emerged in the Tang Dynasty. (also known as modern poetry) is a relative poetry genre.
Ancient poetry is a unique style of Chinese poetry with a special format and rhythm. Poetry can be divided into two categories: ancient style poetry and modern style poetry.
2. Different genre scopes:
Ancient poetry, as a poetry genre, refers to ancient style poetry as opposed to modern style poetry, also known as ancient style and past style poetry. It includes all styles of poetry before the formation of Tang rules, as well as poems still written in ancient styles in the Tang Dynasty and after the Tang Dynasty.
Ancient poetry, also known as ancient style poetry, is generally called ancient style. It is written according to the method of ancient poetry. The form is relatively free and not bound by meter. Judging from the number of words in poems, there are so-called four-character poems, five-character poems and seven-character poems.
Siyan means one sentence with four characters, five characters means one sentence with five characters, and seven characters means one sentence with seven characters. After the Tang Dynasty, four-character poems became rare, so they were usually divided into five-character poems and seven-character poems. Five-character ancient poems are referred to as Wugu; seven-character ancient poems are referred to as Qigu; those using both three, five, and seven characters are generally considered Qigu.
3. Different expression techniques:
Ancient poetry is divided according to the perspective of expression techniques, including content expression techniques and structural expression techniques. The content expression techniques are in order from the largest to the smallest scope of effect, and the expression techniques include lyrical techniques, descriptive techniques, and rhetorical techniques.
There are many expression techniques in ancient poetry. The traditional expression techniques that were first popular in China and are still commonly used include "Fu, Bi and Xing". "Preface to Mao's Poems" says: "There are six meanings in poetry: one is wind, the other is Fu, the third is Bi, the fourth is Xing, the fifth is Ya, and the sixth is Ode.
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