Five ancient introduction:
The Five Classics is one of the poetic genres in ancient China. The editor of 300 Tang Poems divides poems into three categories: classical poems, regular poems and quatrains, all of which are equipped with Yuefu. Ancient poems, regular poems and quatrains are divided into five words and seven words respectively. This is a kind of division.
From the perspective of meter, poetry can be divided into classical poetry and modern poetry. Ancient poetry is also called ancient poetry or ancient style; Modern poetry is also called modern poetry. From the word count, there are four-character poems, five-character poems, seven-character poems and rare six-character poems. After the Tang Dynasty, there were few four-character poems, so the general poetry collections were only divided into five-character poems and seven-character poems.
Five ancient poems:
Classical poetry is written in the style of ancient poetry. In the eyes of the Tang people, everything from the Book of Songs to Yu Xin in the Southern and Northern Dynasties is ancient. Therefore, there is no certain standard for imitating ancient poetry. However, the ancient poems written by poets are consistent in one thing, that is, they are not bound by the rhythm of modern poetry.
We can say that all poems that are not bound by the rhythm of modern poetry are ancient poems. Modern poetry is represented by metrical poetry. Metric poems pay attention to rhyme, flatness and antithesis. Because the meter is very strict, it is called meter poem.
There is a kind of metrical poem with more than eight sentences called parallelism, which is naturally a modern poem. The arrangement of rules is generally five words, and the number of rhymes is often indicated on the topic. For example, Du Fu's "Thirty-six Rhymes of Sleeping Boat in the Rain" is 360 words; Bai Juyi's "Poems with Hundred Rhymes" is a thousand words. This kind of metrical poem uses antithesis except the end couplet (or the end couplet).
Four-line poems are half as many words as ordinary poems. Five-character quatrains are only twenty crosses, and seven-character quatrains are only twenty-eight. In fact, quatrains can be divided into ancient quatrains and strict quatrains. Rhyme can be used in ancient times. Even if it rhymes, it is not bound by the rules of leveling in modern poetry. This can be classified as classical poetry.
Rhythm not only balances the rhyme, but also follows the leveling rule of modern poetry. Formally, they are equivalent to half a metrical poem. This can be classified as modern poetry. To sum up, the so-called ancient poetry belongs to ancient poetry, while metrical poetry (including the arrangement of laws) belongs to modern poetry. Yuefu and quatrains, some belong to ancient style, some belong to modern poetry.
Five words are five words and seven words are seven words. Five-character ancient poems are referred to as five ancient poems, and seven-character ancient poems are referred to as seven ancient poems. Five-character poems are referred to as five laws, and seven-character poems are referred to as seven laws; Five-character quatrains are referred to as five-character quatrains, and seven-character quatrains are referred to as seven-character quatrains.