Five-character poetry is a genre of China's traditional poetry, which belongs to the category of modern poetry. This poetic style originated in the period of Qi Yongming in the Southern Dynasties, and its prototype is Shen Yue's new poetic style which pays attention to rhythm and antithesis. In the early Tang Dynasty, it was basically shaped by Shen Quanqi and Song Dynasty, and matured in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The whole article consists of eight sentences, each with five words. There are two basic forms: ascending and descending, and the two couplets in the middle must be couplets. Representative works include Seeing Friends Off by Li Bai, Spring Hope by Du Fu and Autumn Night in the Deep Mountains by Wang Wei.
For the people in the Tang Dynasty, five-character rhythmic poetry is a new poetic style born out of five-character ancient poetry. It inherits the principle that sentences have definite characters and rhyme with other sentences in the Five Dynasties, and draws lessons from the principles of rhythm and duality of parallel prose, which has developed in many aspects.
Yang Jiong said:
Yang Jiong was born in Huayin, Huazhou (now huayin city, Shaanxi). The great-grandson of a minister and writer in the Tang Dynasty, the Duke of Changshan County, was called "the four outstanding men in the early Tang Dynasty" together with Lu and Luo.
Smart and knowledgeable, outstanding literary talent. In 659, in the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Xianqing, he was awarded the Hong Wen Pavilion as a scholar. In the third year of Shangyuan (676), he took part in the system and made up the proofreader. In the first year of Yongchun (682), he was promoted to Prince (Li Xian) Zhan Shi Zhi. After two years (686), he was demoted to Zizhou Judicial Army. In the first year of Ruyi (692), he moved to Yingchuan County. Ruyi two years (693), died in office.
Outstanding literary talent, good at writing prose, especially poetry. There are more than 30 existing poems, which have the characteristics of breaking through Qi Liang's "Palace Poetry" in content and artistic style, and play a connecting role in the history of poetry development. In the Ming Dynasty, Tong Pei compiled ten volumes of Yang Yingchuan Collection.