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Ancient poetry mainly refers to ancient poems and essays with a long history and rich cultural connotations in China, such as The Book of Songs and Historical Records.
As far as China culture is concerned, it is popular to write poems in the Tang Dynasty, such as quatrains (such as Li Bai's "Early Sending Baidicheng") and regular poems (such as Du Fu's "Landing"); Most popular words in Song Dynasty have epigraph names (such as Bodhisattva Man); The songs in the Yuan Dynasty are famous (such as Dou Eyuan by Guan Hanqing), and there are many names of songs and tunes.
Poetry is divided into ancient poetry and modern poetry. The earliest form of classical poetry is four-character ancient poetry. It is mellow and simple, simple and elegant, mainly appearing in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Later, it developed into a five-character ancient poem, mainly composed of Han Yuefu poems. After that, there are seven-character ancient poems, and the founder is Cao Pi. Then he entered modern poetry.
Five-character poems are the earliest, followed by seven-character poems, five-character quatrains and seven-character quatrains. Generally speaking, classical poetry is more free and casual, while modern poetry, especially Tang and Song poetry, is very important. As the representative of modern poetry, Tang poetry and Song poetry are worthy of our careful reading.
Tang poetry generally refers to poems written in the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty is considered to be the dynasty with the richest old poems in China, so it is called Tang Poetry and Song Poetry.
Most of the Tang poems are included in The Complete Poems of Tang Poetry. Since the Tang Dynasty, anthologies of Tang poetry have emerged continuously, and the most widely spread is "Three Hundred Tang Poems" compiled by retired scholars in Hengtang. The creation of Tang poetry can be divided into four stages according to time: early Tang, prosperous Tang, middle Tang and late Tang.
The forms and styles of Tang poetry are colorful and innovative. It not only inherited the tradition of Han and Wei folk songs and Yuefu, but also greatly developed the singing style. It not only inherited the five-character or seven-character ancient poems of the previous generation, but also developed into a long and huge system of narrative romance; It not only expanded the use of five-character and seven-character styles, but also created modern poems with particularly beautiful and neat styles.
Modern poetry was a new style of poetry at that time, and its emergence and maturity was an important event in the history of Tang poetry development. It pushed the artistic features of China's ancient poems with harmonious syllables and refined words to an unprecedented height, and found a typical form for ancient lyric poetry, which has been especially loved by people so far.
However, the metrical poems in modern poetry are easy to be bound because of their strict metrical restrictions, which is a major defect brought by their advantages.