Chu Ci, during the Warring States Period, Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State, created a new poetic genre in Chu language on the basis of southern folk songs. In the Han Dynasty, Chu Ci was also called Ci or Ci Fu. Chuci became the name of poetry collection again. Qu Yuan's Lisao is the representative work of Songs of the South, with 373 sentences, which is the longest lyric poem in ancient China, so Songs of the South is also called a Sao style or a Sao style.
Fu is a style in ancient China, which first appeared in hundred schools of thought's prose. It pays attention to literary talent and rhythm, and has the nature of poetry and prose.
2. Features:
The writing techniques of Chu Ci are romantic, passionate and imaginative, with strong local characteristics of Chu, mythical colors, thoughts and feelings.
It is a general reference to Chu Ci, and later became a proper noun, referring to the new poetic style represented by Qu Yuan's creation during the Warring States Period. This poetic style has a strong regional cultural color, and Chu Ci is developed through processing and refining on the basis of Chu Ci, with strong local characteristics.
Fu is a style with both poetic and prose features, emphasizing literary talent and rhythm. Fu Bixing is one of the three most basic and commonly used forms of expression in The Book of Songs. Fu is to lay out the meaning of parallelism, which is equivalent to the rhetorical method of modern parallelism. The content focuses on writing scenery and expressing emotion through scenery. Antithesis and algae decoration are a major feature of Han Fu.
After a long process of evolution, it developed to the middle Tang Dynasty. Under the influence of the ancient prose movement, there appeared a trend of prose, which did not talk about parallel prose and rhythm, and the sentence patterns were uneven and the rhyme was relatively free, forming a fresh and smooth prose momentum, called "Wen Fu".
Extended data:
Study on the style of ci and fu;
Chuci and Tifu are different in sentence pattern, text structure, theme content, artistic style, aesthetic taste and many other aspects. We believe that "Ci (Sao)" is one of the important sources of "Fu", and in the development and evolution process after the formation of "Fu", Chu Sao, as a pre-existing poetic form, has had a profound impact on it in terms of content, form and expression techniques.
This influence is not only manifested in the direct production of "Sao Style Fu", but also in other aspects. For example, Chu Sao's "Xi" sentence omits the word "Xi" and provides two main sentence patterns of six characters and three characters.
For another example, "Xi" sentence, as an important sentence pattern resource, was directly introduced into Fu to strengthen the change of sentence patterns, and played a variety of important roles in Fu, such as structuring chapters, increasing lyricism, and promoting the poeticization of Fu in the Six Dynasties. From the above analysis of Ci (Sao) Fu and the introduction of ancient and modern scholars' viewpoints, we can know that Ci in a broad sense includes Chu Ci.
In a narrow sense, "Ci Fu" actually only refers to "Fu", that is, Fu literature formally formed in the Han Dynasty. Although we adhere to the academic position of "different styles of Ci and Fu" in principle, considering the above historical reasons and the complex relationship between Ci and Fu, we have to pay attention to both "Fu" literature itself and "Ci (Sao)" and try to distinguish them as much as possible.
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