In terms of genre:
Ci: Also known as "quci", it was originally sung by Hele. It has a name for the word and is filled in according to the word card. Generally speaking, the word card is the melody pattern of a word. The so-called "word" is filled in to make it become a complete song for singing. In ancient times, poetry was originally in the nature of folk songs and popular songs. Scholar-officials participated in the creation of poetry, and the tunes were gradually lost, so poetry gradually became a literary genre of the nature of "lyrical poetry".
The words are divided into small order, middle tone and long tone, which are divided into Yin, slow, Ling and near. How many, in layman's terms is "segmentation").
The word body rhymes broadly.
Poetry: Originally it was also a folk song, a ballad. The Book of Songs is the earliest collection of ballads in my country. Poetry created by literati began to appear in the Han Dynasty. It is a kind of concise wording, jumping structure, and a sense of rhythm. A lyrical literary style that highly reflects life. After the Han Dynasty, literati poetry developed rapidly and reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty.
Poetry is divided into ancient style and modern style. The ancient style includes four words, five words, seven words, and miscellaneous words ("words" refers to the number of words. "Spring Sleep Unconsciously Dawn" refers to five words.) In addition, there are also songs developed on the basis of ancient style and folk Yuefu poetry (that is, folk songs). Modern poetry is divided into regular verses and quatrains. The first and last couplets of regular verses are not allowed to be in opposition, but the middle two couplets need to be in opposition and rhyme in flat tones; the first to fourth lines of quatrains also rhyme in flat tones. Both rhymed poetry and quatrains are divided into five-character quatrains and seven-character quatrains. There is another type of rhythmic poetry called rowing, which is to extend the couplets with only two couplets in the middle indefinitely to write many pairs of pairs.
Style: The simplest word summary is "Shizhuang Cimei", or "Poetry expresses ambition, and the lyrics focus on emotion".
Poetry has always occupied an orthodox position in Chinese literature, and is often given the meaning of "carrying the truth" (emphasis on the function of social education). Poetry is mostly used to express aspirations. When writing poetry, the most important thing is to have a high standard of style and a high level of intention. This is generally speaking. In fact, in the development of Chinese literature for thousands of years, the styles and patterns of poetry are complex and diverse. There is the natural dilution of Tao Yuanming, the ethereal tranquility of Wang Wei, the melancholy and matureness of Du Fu's rhymed poems and ancient styles, the exquisite beauty and profound meaning of Li Shangyin, the heroic elegance of Li Bai, and the strange beauty of Li He. Weird, Su Dongpo's transcendent and unconventional style, and Huang Tingjian's raw, thin and tough style. So, it's really hard to put it into words. However, in any case, poetry is almost always elegant and solemn.
Because it was originally a popular song sung by kabuki actors, the lyrics are of a charming nature and express the love and separation between men and women as their main content. Later, they were transformed by literati. With different schools, it can be roughly divided into three schools: bold, graceful, and elegant. The bold school is represented by Su Shi and Xin Qiji. The bold style is not inferior to similar poems, and the magnanimity is grand. Although the achievements are very high, this is not the orthodox and mainstream style of poetry; the graceful school is the authentic style of poetry, focusing on lyricism, elegance and elegance. , implicit and lingering, represented by poets such as Qin Guan, Li Qingzhao, Liu Yong, and Zhou Bangyan, the master of elegance; Qingya School is a style of poetry in the Southern Song Dynasty, represented by Jiang Kui, with neat rhythms, well-crafted sentences, and the trend of Yu Yahua completely removed the folk style from his poems.
Content:
In fact, the above has almost been said. Most of the poems talk about ambitions, or social politics, and of course they are also lyrical, but they generally express feelings that are in line with etiquette, rather than evil feelings. Specifically, in terms of content, there are landscape poems and pastoral poems. Later, landscape and pastoral poems merged into one. There are social allegorical poems, epic poems, and narrative poems, such as "The Peacock Flying Southeast" in Yuefu, as well as metaphysical poems (talking about metaphysics) and immortal poems (seeking immortality and attaining enlightenment) from the Eastern Jin Dynasty. There are poems expressing one's ambitions, poems about death (in memory of the deceased wife), poems about objects, palace poems, etc., with various contents.
All contents of bold and unrestrained words can be included, but as authentic graceful words, they generally express the feelings of men and women missing each other. Liu Yong also developed a genre of writing about urban landscapes, travel and military affairs, and of course, poetry about things, etc. Most of them are romance works.
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