What do you mean by five-character quatrains?

Five-character quatrains, a form of poetry in China's ancient literature, consist of four sentences with five words each, which are characterized by flat lines and express the poet's thoughts and feelings. The creative skills of five-character quatrains are very strict, which requires imagination, language expression and cultural accumulation. Du Fu was a famous poet in Tang Dynasty and a representative figure of five-character quatrains. His famous works such as Delighting in Rain on a Spring Night and Up the Mountain are all beautiful five-character quatrains.

In China traditional literature, five-character quatrains are usually used to express feelings and thoughts. Most five-character quatrains can convey the information or feelings that readers need. Today, five-character quatrains are also widely used in modern literary works, especially in modern poems and songs. Although the creative techniques of modern literature are more free and flexible than those of ancient times, the connotation and expressive force of five-character quatrains can not be ignored.

Five-character quatrains have become a unique form in China literature because of their prosodic features. There is both artistic conception and musical sense, so when expressing emotions, it often gives people an aesthetic feeling of omission. Through the form of five-character quatrains, poets can freely express their thoughts and feelings, and also make readers more easily attracted and feel the beauty of poetry. Moreover, five-character quatrains have become one of the representatives of China culture, widely used in school education, literary and artistic creation, cultural exchange and other aspects, and become an indispensable part of poetry culture.