Ancient poetry is a general term for ancient China poetry, which refers to the poetry works created by ancient China people. Ancient poems in a broad sense include poems, ci poems and Sanqu poems, while ancient poems in a narrow sense only refer to poems, including ancient poems and modern poems.
1. Classical poetry. It's a poetic genre. Judging from the number of words in poems, there are so-called four-character poems, five-character poems and seven-character poems.
2. Modern poetry, also known as modern poetry and metrical poetry, is a genre of Han poetry that pays attention to levelness, antithesis and rhyme. In order to be different from classical poetry, it has the name of modern style.
3. Words. Ci is a unique style of poetry, which sprouted in the Southern Dynasties and is a new literary style that emerged in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, after a long period of continuous development, Ci entered its heyday.
4. Sanqu. A form of verse, which appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty and prevailed in the Yuan Dynasty, was formed under the influence of folk songs, and its syntax was more flexible than that of words.
5. Modern poetry. Also known as "Vernacular Poetry", it can be traced back to the end of Qing Dynasty, and it is a kind of poetry. Compared with classical poetry, although it is written for feeling things, it is generally informal in format and rhythm.