Introduction to ancient poetry:
Ancient poetry, also known as ancient style. There are fifteen national styles in The Book of Songs, and later generations extended poetry as "wind". After Liang and Chen, "ancient poetry" formed a special name with a specific meaning. It is the same as the two Han Yuefu songs, referring to the five-character poem written by Wu Ming in the Han Dynasty, which has developed into a poetic style with the artistic characteristics of "ancient poetry".
Nineteen Ancient Poems occupies a representative position in the history of literature, and this title has also become a topic name. The ancient poetic style before the Tang Dynasty is a poetic style that does not pay attention to meter and has no limitation on the number of words and sentences. After the Tang Dynasty, due to the appearance of modern poetry, poets deliberately imitated the writing style of ancient poetry in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties in order to distinguish ancient poetry from new metrical poetry, and restricted it in some aspects, thus forming a fixed pattern of ancient poetry in the Tang Dynasty.
The number of words and lines in classical poetry;
Classical poetry has no fixed verse and style. All ancient poems are classified according to the number of words in the poem. Four-character ancient poems are referred to as four-character ancient poems for short; Five-character ancient poems are referred to as five-character ancient poems for short; Seven-character ancient poems are referred to as seven-character ancient poems for short. Four-character poems were adopted by people as early as the Book of Songs. But it gradually declined in the Tang Dynasty, and few people wrote it. Therefore, ancient poetry is still expressed in five words and seven words.
The origin of poetry:
Poetry is a literary art that elucidates the soul, while poets and poets need to master mature artistic skills and express social life and human spiritual world with concise language, dense composition, rich emotions and rich images in a highly concentrated way according to strict rhythm requirements. China's poetry originated in the pre-Qin period and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. China's ci originated in Sui and Tang Dynasties and was popular in Song Dynasty.
Ancient poetry is a treasure in China's 5,000-year history of civilization. Through the study of ancient poems, one can better improve one's cultural accomplishment, cultivate good aesthetic taste and cultivate one's sentiment. Reciting ancient poems is helpful to master common words, idioms and allusions in ancient Chinese and improve the reading ability of ancient Chinese.