The characteristics of classical poetry Classical poetry is a poetic style relative to modern poetry. Before the formation of modern poetry, there were many schools of Chinese poetry. Also known as the ancient style of ancient poetry, there are three carriers of "Song", "Xing" and "Yin".
Four-character poems no longer exist in modern poetry. Although the word "ancient" is not added, it goes without saying that it is an ancient poem. The ancient poems included in The Book of Songs are mainly four-character poems. Four-character poems were still written in Han Dynasty and Wei and Jin Dynasties. Cao Cao's Looking at the Sea and Tao Yuanming's Stopping Clouds are typical four-character poems.
There are many ancient poems with five words and seven words, referred to as five ancient poems and seven ancient poems for short.
The ancient Five Dynasties first appeared in the Han Dynasty. Nineteen ancient poems, all five-character poems. After the Han Dynasty, many people wrote five-character poems. Most of the poems in the Southern and Northern Dynasties are five-character poems, and there are more five-character poems in the Tang Dynasty and later. The appearance of the Seven Ancient Dynasties may be earlier than that of the Five Ancient Dynasties. But before the Tang Dynasty, it was not as common as the Five Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, seven ancient books appeared in large numbers, which were also called long sentences by the Tang people.
Miscellaneous poems are also unique to ancient poetry. Poetry varies in length, from one word to more than one cross. Generally, it is a mixture of three, four, five and seven words, and seven words are the main ones, so it is customarily classified as ancient seven words. There are many miscellaneous poems in The Book of Songs and Han Yuefu folk songs.
Since the Han and Wei Dynasties, Yuefu poems have been accompanied by music, including songs, lines, songs and poems. Many Yuefu poems in Tang Dynasty were unhappy. There are various forms of miscellaneous poems in Tang and Song Dynasties: there are seven words mixed with five words, such as Li Bai's Difficult to Go; There are seven words mixed with three words, such as Zhang Lei's Cowherd; There are three or five sentences in the seven words, such as Li Bai's "Into the Wine"; There are seven words mixed with two, three, four, five words to more than ten words, such as Du Fu's "The Hut is Blown by Autumn Wind"; There are four, six and eight characters mixed with five or seven characters, such as Li Bai's "Difficult Road to Shu".