Taking the Tang Dynasty as the boundary, the previous poems were all ancient poems, and later, the ancient poems gradually declined and died out.
Ancient poetry is also called ancient poetry or ancient style; Modern poetry is also called modern poetry.
From the Book of Songs to Yu Xin in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they are all ancient poems, but the poems after the Tang Dynasty are not necessarily modern poems, but they are distinguished according to rhyme.
2. Classification of ancient poems
There are many styles of ancient Chinese poetry in China, and there are different opinions on the classification and appellation of ancient poetry. Especially for Yuefu, ancient style and ballad poetry, it is even more confusing. Because, from the formal point of view, Yuefu style and ancient style are both five-character styles, and seven-character ancient poems and ancient songs are all seven-character styles, so it is difficult to distinguish them. But since ancient times, people have unanimously recognized their differences in content, technique and style, and established their names.
3. Related introduction
Rhyme: rhyming words at the end of a verse sentence, such as the bright light at the foot of my bed, may there be frost already? Looking up, I found that it was moonlight and sank again. I suddenly remembered the home in Li Bai's Thoughts on a Quiet Night. The land of light and frost is rhyme. Usually the third sentence doesn't rhyme, but there are also poems with irregular rhymes (such as looking at Tianmen Mountain).
(2) Rhyme: The rhyme of poetry and fu makes the tone harmonious and beautiful. For example, Li Bai's Silent Night Thoughts has a strong rhyme.
(3) The structure of metrical poems: * * eight sentences, with one or two sentences as the first couplet, three or four sentences as the parallel couplet, five or six sentences as the neck couplet, and seven or eight sentences as the tail couplet.