Nineteen Ancient Poems is an anthology of five-character poems created by ancient China literati, which contains nineteen excellent five-character poems. These poems are highly representative in artistic form and theme content, and have a far-reaching impact on the development of five-character poems in later generations. Liu Xie, a literary theorist in the Southern Liang Dynasty, praised these poems as "the crown of five words" in Wen Xin Diao Long.
Most of the authors of Nineteen Ancient Poems are anonymous, and the creation time is from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period. These poems have a wide range of themes, from poems about history to poems about natural scenery and daily life. In artistic expression, these poems are famous for their simple and natural style and have high aesthetic value.
Nineteen Ancient Poems occupies an important position in the history of ancient poetry in China, and has a far-reaching influence on the poetry creation of later literati.
Many well-known poems and artistic expressions are derived from these poems, such as "thinking of a gentleman is like looking at the moon, and it decreases every night" (19 ancient poems (XI)), "Clouds cover the sun, and wanderers ignore it" (19 ancient poems (4)) and "There are no words in the water" (19 ancient poems (20)).
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1, five-character poem:
Five-character poems are five words for each poem, * * * five words. It is a form of China's classical poetry, which originated from the Book of Songs and Songs of the South in the pre-Qin period. Five-character poems gradually matured in the Han Dynasty and reached a prosperous period in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. Many famous poets, such as Cao Cao, Tao Yuanming and Xie Lingyun, are good at writing five-character poems. The sentence structure of five-character poems is concise and lively, with distinct rhythm, which has high artistic value.
2. Wen Xin Diao Long:
Wen Xin Diao Long is a literary criticism monograph by Liu Xie, an ancient Chinese literary theorist, and an important work in the history of Chinese literary criticism. There are 50 books, which comprehensively discuss literary creation, literary criticism, literary history and literary theory.
Liu Xie put forward many important literary viewpoints in Wen Xin Diao Long, such as "Qi is based on real ambition, ambition is based on fixed qi" (Wen Xin Diao Si), "Wen is based on Tao, Tao is based on Wen" (Wen Xin Diao Long The Original Road) and so on.