Four-character poem is a genre of China's ancient poems. "Four-character poem" refers to a poem composed of four words. Four-character poem refers to a poem written in four sentences, which runs through the capital. This is reflected in the ancient songs and rhymes of Zhouyi. The Book of Songs, China's first poetry collection, contains three-character, five-character, seven-character, eight-character and nine-character sentences, but they are basically four-character.
Four-character poem is the earliest poetic genre in ancient China. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, the most popular poetic style is the four-character poem, whether in the upper or lower levels of society, whether in entertainment or sacrifice occasions.
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1. Poetry styles are divided into lyric poetry, narrative poetry and mystery poetry. ?
Lyrics reflect social life by expressing the feelings of poets. Narrative poems mainly describe and describe people, express the author's thoughts and feelings and reflect social life through relatively complete story plots and character descriptions. Reasoning poetry focuses on reasoning and discussion.
2. According to the form, there are two categories: China traditional poetry and foreign poetry.
China's traditional poems include classical poems, metrical poems (metrical poems and quatrains, also known as modern poems), words and songs. Foreign-style poems, commonly known as "vernacular poems", include sonnets and free verse.
Classical poetry is an ancient "free poem" without certain meter, which is generally divided into four-character poems, five-character ancient poems (five ancient poems), seven-character ancient poems (seven ancient poems) and miscellaneous poems. Modern poetry has strict metrical rules, such as the number of sentences, the number of words, rhyming, leveling and so on. It is an ancient metrical poem, which generally includes metrical poems (five laws and seven laws), quatrains (five sentences and seven verses) and lines (five words and seven words).
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