Note: Ancient poetry is the general name of ancient poetry in China, which refers to the poetry created by ancient people in China. 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.
Ancient poetry, that is, China's ancient poetry, refers to China's poetry works before the Opium War 1840. Its original intention is a poem written by the ancients. Broadly speaking, China's ancient poems include poems, words and Sanqu written by the ancients. In a narrow sense, ancient poetry only refers to ancient poetry and modern poetry written by ancient people.
1, ancient poetry. This is a poetic genre. Judging from the number of words in poetry, there are 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 Chinese poetry that pays attention to fairness, antithesis and rhyme. In order to distinguish it from classical poetry, it has the name of modern style.
3. Text. Ci is a unique poetic style, which sprouted in the Southern Dynasties and is a new literary style 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 that 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 words.
5. Modern poetry. Also known as "vernacular poetry", it can be traced back to the late 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.
According to whether there are complete stories: lyric poems and narrative poems; According to the performance content: pastoral poetry, landscape poetry, satirical poetry, epic, pastoral, elegy, ode, philosophical poetry; According to the forms of expression, it can be divided into ancient poems, modern poems, metrical poems, metrical poems, quatrains, arranged poems, recitation poems, limerick poems, free poems, sonnets, ballads, folk songs, nursery rhymes and prose poems.