Seven-character poetry is a genre of China's traditional poetry, which belongs to the category of modern poetry. Shen Yue's new-style poems originated from Qi Yongming in the Southern Dynasties, paying attention to rhythm and duality. They were further developed and stereotyped by Shen Quanqi and Song in the early Tang Dynasty and matured by Du Fu in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Seven-character verse is strict, which requires the unity of words in the poem. It consists of eight sentences, and each sentence has seven words. Every two sentences are a couplet, and * * * is a quadruple, which is divided into first couplet, parallel couplet, neck couplet and tail couplet. The two couplets in the middle demand antithesis. Representative works include the Yellow Crane Tower in Cui Hao, Du Fu's Ascending, and Li Shangyin's Stabilizing Tower.
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The ancients wrote poems alternately in flat and flat tones, forming melody beauty, also known as melody beauty. It refers to the "harmony" in the sentence. Why can flat tones form melodic beauty? In the Middle Ages, there were four tones: flat tone, rising tone, falling tone and entering tone. "Kangxi Dictionary" said: "The tone is flat and the road is not low, the upper voice is fierce and strong, the voice is clear and sad, and the tone is short and urgent."
The use of flat tones in metrical poems is directly related to the four tones. Choosing different Chinese characters with flat and flat strokes in poetry will form a harmonious musical beauty. Therefore, levelness is the most important factor in the formation of modern poetry. As Wang Li, a linguist, said, there is no rhythm and meter without leveling. Flat tile is the combination of flat tile and flat tile.
The main purpose of leveling is to seek "different people follow": the leveling in one sentence alternates, while the leveling in one couplet is the opposite. The "right" of poetic method is flat and even, while "sticky" is flat and even. In fact, "sticky" is also different, because only "sticky" can make the front and back couplets flat. The step is the basic rhythm unit of poetry. In Chinese, a Chinese character is a syllable, and different numbers of syllables constitute a step.
There are many exquisite poems in words, rhymes, tones, antithesis and so on. It is stipulated that poems should have definite sentences, definite characters in sentences, even words and strict rhymes, and the two couplets of regular poems should be correct.
Based on the characteristics of Chinese characters, sounds and tones, and the special requirements of poetry for the beauty of music, form and elegance, it has strong vitality and is endless.
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