What does the five-step poem mean?

Seven-character poem is one of China's modern poems. The meter is very strict Shen Yue's new-style poems originated in the heyday of Qi Yongming in the Southern Dynasties, paying attention to rhythm and duality. They were further developed in Shen Quanqi and Song in the early Tang Dynasty and matured in Du Fu. Rhythm requires the unity of the number of words in poetry. Rhythm consists of eight sentences, and seven sentences are called seven-character verse. Each song has eight lines, seven words in each line, and every two lines are connected, which is divided into four parts: the first part, the parallel part, the neck part and the tail part.

Quatrains, also called truncated sentences, broken sentences and quatrains, are short and pithy. It is a popular genre of Chinese poetry in the Tang Dynasty and belongs to a form of modern poetry. The word quatrains first appeared in the Qi and Liang Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties. Chen Xuling's Yu Tai Fu has four five-character and four-sentence poems. I don't know the author's name, and the topic is "Ancient Jueju". At this time, quatrains refer to small poems with five words, four sentences and two rhymes, and do not require balance and harmony. Jue means "cut off", and the ancients used four poems with four quatrains to complete an ideological concept. There are two types of quatrains: quatrains and archaic styles. Rhythm only needs to be refined after the rise of rhythmic poetry. Ancient times existed long before the appearance of metrical poems.

The Five-step Poetry was written in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, there was a Confucian scholar named Shi Qing in Lingling. He was gifted and had a lot of literary thoughts. He went to Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and despised Cao Zhi's seven-step talent, claiming that poetry could be written in five steps. Xuanzong was surprised by this and wanted to interview face to face. On that day, Shi Qing was unusually calm and knelt down and said to the emperor, "Please give me a question, long live." It happened that this day was New Year's Eve, and Xuanzong took "New Year's Eve" as the topic and asked him to write a poem at once. Who knows that the emperor's voice just fell, Shi Qing blurted out: "This year will be over tonight, and I will urge it tomorrow next year. The cold goes with the night, and spring comes one by one. Discoloration in the air and disfigurement in the dark. The scenery is unnoticed and has entered the backyard. " When a poem is sung, there are no five steps. His outstanding talent is even worse than Cao Zhi's. Tang Xuanzong was happy and was immediately awarded the official title, which became a beautiful talk.