China's ancient poetry has a wide range of genres, which can be divided into several categories according to time clues:
1, the style of the book of songs. Poetry in the Yellow River valley has different genres, such as style, elegance and vulgarity, and fu, and later formed the form of narrow ancient poetry.
2. Chu ci. Poetry in the Yangtze River valley is represented by Lisao, so it is called "Sao Poetry".
Before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were mainly these two kinds. Because "Feng" represents the Book of Songs and "Sao" represents Chu Ci, there is a saying of "Sao".
3. Ancient poetry in a narrow sense. Compared with modern poetry in the Tang Dynasty, it is a poem that appeared after The Book of Songs and Songs of the South, covering all poetry genres. Such as Yuefu, folk songs of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, poems of four, five, six and seven characters, etc. These include lyrics that depend on the form of music.
4. Modern poetry. Eight-legged metrical poems in Tang Dynasty, such as metrical poems and quatrains.
5. Poetry in the form of lyrics and songs. They developed from music lyrics. For example, Song Ci and Yuan Qu.
Each of these classifications has a different type. For example, there are differences in modern poetry, such as whether it is even, puckered up, and whether the first sentence rhymes; There are more than 1000 different aphorisms and word formats.