Song poetry in Tang dynasty

Song poetry in the Tang Dynasty is an ancient genre of Chinese poetry, which originated from Yuefu poetry in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties and was widely developed in the Tang Dynasty. The relevant contents are as follows:

1. It is a genre based on Yuefu poems in the early Tang, Han, Wei and Six Dynasties. Represented by seven-character long narrative genres, such as Song of Eternal Sorrow, Pipa Xing and Lotus Palace Ci, it is typical.

2. Since the Tang Dynasty, there have been many famous songs, such as Yan Gexing, Bai Xuege's farewell to Tian Shuji, Wu Guixiang, Difficult to Walk, Pipa Xing, Song of Eternal Sorrow, Moonlit Night on the Spring River, Entering the Car Shop and so on. , are songs, and even "Good Songs" and "A Dream of Red Mansions"

3. This kind of poem generally has the following characteristics: the number of words in the whole article is not fixed, and the length can be varied; Seven-character sentences are the main ones, with miscellaneous words sandwiched in the middle; Rhythm and rhyme are relatively free, flat and informal, and you can change rhymes; Narration and lyricism are integrated.

The characteristics of songs in the Tang Dynasty are as follows:

1, the length can be short or long: the length of a ballad poem has no fixed rules and can be adjusted freely according to the needs of the content. For example, there are 65,438+08 sentences in Bai Xuege, 24 sentences in Autumn Wind Breaking the Cottage by Du Fu, 88 sentences in Pipa Xing by Bai Juyi and 65,438+020 sentences in Song of Eternal Sorrow.

2. The sentence pattern is more flexible: Gexing poetry is mainly composed of seven words, but it can also be interspersed with non-seven-word sentences. For example, "The Hut is Blown by Autumn Wind" is basically composed of seven words, but there are also two words ("Alas") and nine words ("Suddenly seeing this house in front of me, it is enough for me to freeze to death alone").

3. Rhythm and rhyme are relatively free: the requirements for the meter and rhyme of the songs are relatively loose, flat and informal, and the rhyme can be changed. Because singing poetry is often "sentimental and wordy", there are relatively many sentences. If rhyme is required at the end, it will increase the difficulty of creation.

4. Integration of narrative and lyricism: Gexing poetry often combines narrative and lyricism, making poetry both narrative and lyrical.