As far as literary genre is concerned, classical poetry is a language art that takes classical Chinese as the carrier and reproduces life lyricism and aspiration with the harmony of language rhythm. Classical poetry is one of the two major genres of Chinese language poetry divided according to the time of its emergence. Chinese language poetry can be divided into classical poetry and modern poetry. Classical poetry is divided into classical style poetry and classical metrical poetry. Modern poetry can be divided into modern metrical poetry and modern style poetry. As far as literary genre is concerned, classical style poetry is a language art which takes the classical Chinese language as the carrier and reproduces life lyricism and expression with the general harmony of language rhythm. Classical style poetry includes poetry of the Book of Songs, poetry of Chu Ci, poetry of Yuefu and poetry of ancient style.
Classical style poems are relatively free in meter, free from antithesis, even in tone, wide in rhyme and unlimited in length. The sentences are four-character, five-character, six-character, seven-character and miscellaneous. Those who use three, five and seven words at the same time generally count as seven words.