Sanqu originated from the vulgarization of Song Ci, and was created with the music tunes popular in the north at that time. It is a kind of China music literature originated from folk new voices, and it is a new style poem that appeals to both refined and popular tastes.
It has two basic forms: small order and set number. Later, with the normalization of Sanqu and the decrease of population, it lost the fresh blood of street culture with distinctive personality, became almost the same as Song Ci, and then declined, failing to prosper and continue like Tang Poetry and Song Ci.
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The characteristics of Sanqu:
First, in terms of language, it is necessary to pay attention to certain metrical patterns and absorb the characteristics of free and flexible spoken language, so it tends to be colloquial and a certain part of the melody is rambling.
Secondly, in terms of artistic expression, it adopts the way of "Fu" more than modern poetry to elaborate the narrative.
Third, the rhyme of Sanqu is flexible, which can be flat and even, and can also be sandwiched. There were more or less mezzanine characters in the Northern Song Dynasty, and there was a saying that mezzanine was not three in the Southern Song Dynasty. Interlayer is obviously colloquial and slang, which plays a role in making the meaning of songs clear, vivid and poor.
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