palindrome poetry is a unique genre in Chinese classical poetry. According to Wu Jing's Interpretation of Ancient Poems in Yuefu in Tang Dynasty, palindromes are: "Palindrome poems, if you reply to them, are all sung and written."
In terms of writing techniques, palindrome poems inherit the artistic features of repeated chanting, so as to achieve the purpose of "expressing ambition and telling things" and produce a strong artistic effect of repeated chanting. Some people once regarded palindrome as a word game. In fact, this is a misunderstanding of palindrome. Liu Pogong's "Hundred Ways to Learn Poetry" said: "Palindrome poems are repeated and intrigued, and we must not take the path lightly."
there are many forms of palindromes, such as "complete palindrome", "one-sentence palindrome", "two-sentence palindrome" and "ring palindrome". "Full-bodied palindrome" means that a poem is read from the end to the beginning to become a new poem. "palindrome" refers to the process of completing the reply in one sentence, and the first half and the second half of each sentence are palindromes. "Two-sentence palindrome" means that the next sentence is the back reading of the previous sentence. "This palindrome" means that a poem itself completes a reply, that is, the second half is the first half. "Ring palindrome" refers to continuous to the end, and then from the end to the beginning.
As the representative of "two-sentence palindrome", the poem of Qin Guan in Song Dynasty is about "Go to Ma Rufei to enjoy flowers, and go to Ma Rufei to have a weak drink. When the wine is slightly awake, it is already dusk, and when I wake up, I have already enjoyed the flowers. " After the first line of flowers, Qin Guan, who was unable to drink well, galloped home, flying like a horseshoe. Ma Rufei's reason is obvious, because the flowers are charming and intoxicating, so the author hurried home to share his carefree mood quickly. The latter line writes that you can enjoy the flowers after waking up. Although there is little long-term benefit, you can get drunk with friends! After waking up, the dusk is boundless, just in time to enjoy the flowers and return home. How free and easy it is, not to mention palindromes, but to pick out one sentence, its artistic conception is solitary, elegant and impeccable.
Another well-known palindrome in history comes from Su Shi, a great poet in China. The whole poem is "The tide inclines with the dark waves and the snow-capped mountains, and the fishing boat catches the moon in Yuanpu. The loose diameter of the bridge to the temple gate is small, and the sill is clear as the spring eye of shi bo. All the way, the trees are green, the river is dawn, and the sea is sunny. Looking at the clouds on the four sides, the blue peak is thousands of points. " And when you read the whole poem upside down, it will be another artistic conception, "light and bright, and the water meets the clouds and looks around." On a sunny day, Hai Xia is red and misty, and the trees in Xiaotianjiang are green. Qingbo Shiyan Spring is the sill, and the path Songmen Temple faces the bridge. The moon is fishing for boats and fishing for Puyuan, and the mountains and snow waves are dark with the tide. " Reading in the forward direction means that the scenery on a moonlit night will reach the dawn of the river, while reading in the backward direction means that the fishing boat will sing late at dawn. The conception is ingenious and the organization is ingenious. The whole poem is very natural, fluent in sound and meaning, beautiful in realm and worth pondering.