Appreciation of seven-character ancient poems in hard pen calligraphy
Seven-character ancient poetry, referred to as seven-character ancient poetry for short, is a poetic form with the most vivid form, the most diverse genre, the most free syntax and phonology, and the most expressive lyrical narrative. The whole poem consists of seven words or seven sentences. Simply put, it is long in length, large in capacity and flexible in rhyme. For example, Du Fu's seven-character ancient poem "Song of Lady Gong Sun's Female Student Dancing Knife" and "Song of General Cao's Drawing" and so on. The appearance of seven-character ancient poems provides a larger poetic form and enriches the artistic expression of China's classical poems.
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It originated from folk songs. In the pre-Qin period, in addition to the seven-character sentences in The Book of Songs and Songs of the South, Xiangcheng Pian written by Xunzi is a kind of miscellaneous verse with seven characters as the main body, which is an imitation of folk songs. In the Western Han Dynasty, there were seven popular rhymes, such as Sima Xiangru's Fan Jiang and You's Jiupian, as well as Louhu Song and Shangjun Song contained in Hanshu.
The main characteristics of seven-character ancient poems
Secondly, as far as the main characteristics of the style are concerned, the requirement of the seven ancient poems is to draw a clear line with the seven-character poems (including the seven laws and seven laws). There is a saying in Wang Shizhen's The Balance of Ancient Poetry in Qing Dynasty: "Seven words are indifferent. If the rhyme is flat, it must not be mixed. " In seven-character ancient poems, there are three sounds at the end of the sentence, and the sentence emphasizes loneliness and dullness, which are all reactions to metrical poems. As for the Seven-character Song, although some early works are quite similar to the ancient Seven Dynasties in style and style, the phenomenon of legalization has become more and more serious in its evolution. According to Wang Li's China Poetics, there are 53 metrical and quasi-metrical sentences in Bai Juyi's 88 sentences of Pipa Xing, and the song of everlasting regret 120 accounts for as many as 100 sentences. The formation of this legalization trend is not accidental, it is the result of pursuing harmony of sound and rhyme due to the requirements of singing poetry.