Magpie's seven wonders

The seven sections of "The Magpie Climbs the Branch" are as follows:

1, the moon is thin, and the black magpie flies south. -"Short Songs" Wei, Jin and Cao Cao

2. Huang Ming * * * Juling Yangyuan, Cai Fengqi gathered in Yue Hui Palace.

3, in today's red makeup, the corolla drum beak is quite blue.

4. Looking at the grand vision of the Millennium beauty, the century-old passionate ink painting has flourished.

5, 100 points of red in the evergreen bush, while the romantic Yan dance teases.

Genre evolution

Seven-character quatrain is a kind of quatrain, which is called seven-character quatrain for short, and its origin is not clear. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people thought that the Four Musts originated from Xiao Gang, Yu Shinan or the four great masters, and all of them referred to the seven-character laws. Although in its development process, the Seven Juexing was indeed dominated by the law, like the Five Juexing, the formation of the ancient Juexing still preceded the law.

Modern scholars at home and abroad generally tend to regard Yuefu folk songs in the Northern Dynasties as the source of seven-character ancient poems. Some scholars also believe that the source of seven-character ancient poetry should be traced back to the folk songs of the Western Jin Dynasty. Although there were mature seven-character quatrains like Ge Yanxing written by Cao Pi in the Han and Wei Dynasties, the earliest complete seven-character four-sentence style appeared in the ballads of the Western Jin Dynasty.

This is the song of the old man in Yuzhou, which rhymes: "Fortunately, Li escaped from danger and became a loving father. Xuanjiu forgot to work hard, so why bother thinking about singing and dancing? "

Poetic meter

Seven-character quatrains belong to modern poems with strict metrical requirements. The first is fixed length. The whole poem consists of four sentences, each with seven words, totaling * * * 28 words. Secondly, the rhyme is rigorous, usually only flat, not rhyming. Also pay attention to the level tone, that is, it conforms to the level tone law, that is, under normal circumstances, two syllables (two words) are a step, and the level tone is alternately arranged.

According to Pinglv, seven-character quatrains have four standard sentence patterns:

First, flat and flat (flat and flat, the last word is flat, called flat feet).

The second is flat and flat (flat and flat, the last word is flat and flat, called flat and flat feet).

Third, it is flat and flat (from the beginning, the last word is flat, called flat feet).

Fourth, plain (plain, the last word is plain, so it is called plain). Its flat sticker has a certain elasticity, that is, the so-called "135 regardless, 246 is clear", but it is also necessary to avoid making a flat three-level tone.