Gexing is a genre of China's classical poetry, which belongs to Yuefu poetry. After the Han and Wei Dynasties, there appeared many Yuefu poems with the themes of "Song" and "Xing", such as "Da Feng Ge" and "Ge Yanxing". Although the names are different, there is actually no strict difference in form. Since then, the combination of "song and line" has appeared, with relatively free syllables and meter, and the form of five-character, seven-character and miscellaneous words is full of changes.
"Xing" means music. See Biography of Historical Records of Sima Xiangru and Suoyin by Sima Zhen.
Singing style
"Gexing Style" was created by Bao Zhao in the Southern Song Dynasty. Bao Zhao imitates learning Yuefu. After full digestion, absorption and casting, he not only acquired his own style, but also developed seven-character poems and created a genre with seven-character style as the main style.
"Gexing" is a genre of China's ancient poems, which was established in the early Tang Dynasty on the basis of Yuefu poems in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties. The appearance of "Moonlit Night on a Spring River" by He Zhang can be said to be a sign of the formal formation of this genre.
Xu Shi, a writer in the Ming Dynasty, once explained "Song", "Xing" and "Xing Ge" in "Distinguishing Poetic Style" as follows: "A long lyricist, miscellaneous and ignorant, speaks songs; The pace is rushing, and those who are sparse and not sluggish will do it; Those part-time singers sing. "