1. Ancient poetry is a genre of ancient Chinese poetry, also known as ancient poetry or ancient style. It refers to a kind of poetry genre that came into being before the Tang Dynasty, as opposed to the modern poetry (also known as modern poetry) that appeared in the Tang Dynasty. Its characteristic is that the metrical restrictions are not too strict.
2. Ancient poems, including all kinds of poems before the formation of the Tang Law, and poems written in ancient style after the Tang Dynasty. With the Tang Dynasty as the boundary, the pre-Tang poems from the Book of Songs to the Southern and Northern Dynasties are all ancient poems. Since then, classical poetry has gradually declined and disappeared.
3. Ancient poetry (ancient poetry) has a fixed poem and style. Compared with modern poetry, the metrical restrictions of ancient poetry are less. The length can be long or short, and the rhyme is more free and flexible. There are four words, five words, seven words, miscellaneous words and other forms. The ancient poems after the Han and Wei Dynasties are generally dominated by five or seven words, with certain rhyme and inflections.
All ancient poems are classified according to the number of words in the poem. Four-character ancient poems are referred to as four-character ancient poems for short; Five-character ancient poems are referred to as five-character ancient poems for short; Seven-character ancient poems are referred to as seven-character ancient poems for short. Four-character poems were adopted by people as early as the Book of Songs. But it gradually declined in the Tang Dynasty, and few people wrote it.
5. Five-character poetry is the orthodoxy of ancient poetry, written by many people. Seven-character ancient poetry is not the mainstream of classical poetry, because it originated late. Therefore, the seven-character ancient style is greatly influenced by the seven-character modern poetry.
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About Tang poetry:
Tang poetry generally refers to poems written in the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty is considered to be the dynasty with the richest old poems in China, so it is called Tang Poetry and Song Poetry. Most of the Tang poems are included in The Complete Poems of Tang Poetry. Since the Tang Dynasty, anthologies of Tang poetry have emerged continuously, and the most widely spread is "Three Hundred Tang Poems" compiled by retired scholars in Hengtang. According to the time,
The creation of Tang poetry can be divided into four stages: early Tang, prosperous Tang, middle Tang and late Tang. There were many poets in the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi and Wang Wei are world-famous great poets.
There are two creative methods of Tang poetry: realism and romanticism. Many great works are examples of the combination of these two creative methods, forming an excellent tradition of China's classical poetry.
There are basically two kinds of ancient poems in Tang Dynasty: five-character poems and seven-character poems. There are also two kinds of modern poems, one is called quatrains, and the other is called metrical poems. Quatrains and metrical poems are five words and seven words respectively. Therefore, there are basically six basic forms of Tang poetry: five-character archaic poetry, seven-character archaic poetry, five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains, five-character rhythmic poems and seven-character rhythmic poems.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Ancient Poetry