Ancient poetry is a model of classical Chinese, with diverse themes.
For example: Poetry and Qufu, ancient poetry is a genre of classical Chinese.
"Classical Chinese" is relative to "vernacular Chinese"
What is "classical Chinese"?
"Wen" refers to a written article.
"Speech" means writing, expressing and recording.
"Classical Chinese", that is, written language, is relative to "spoken language", which is also called "vernacular".
The last word "Wen" refers to works, articles, etc. , which means genre.
"Classical Chinese" means "articles written in written language". And "vernacular" means: "articles written in plain spoken language".
In ancient China, it was different to express the same thing in spoken and written language. For example, if you want to ask someone if they have eaten, you can express it in spoken English as "Have you eaten?" And using books and language to express it is "rice?" . "Fanbu" is classical Chinese. In ancient China, all articles were written in written language. Therefore, now we generally refer to ancient Chinese as "classical Chinese"
2. Are ancient poems written in classical Chinese? Yes
Classical poetry, a genre of China's ancient poetry, also known as classical poetry or archaism, refers to a poetic genre that originated before the Tang Dynasty and was opposite to the modern poetry that appeared in the Tang Dynasty. Its characteristic is that the metrical restrictions are not too strict.
Classical Chinese includes ancient poetry, ancient prose, history and so on. Among them, ancient poetry belongs to the category of classical Chinese poetry. For example, 300 Tang poems, 300 Song poems, 300 Yuan songs, the Book of Songs and thousands of poems are all famous ancient poems.
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Classical Chinese is characterized by paying attention to the use of allusions, parallel prose and neat rhythm, including strategy, poetry, words, songs, stereotyped writing and parallel prose. After the modification of literati in past dynasties, it became more and more flashy. Since the Tang Dynasty, Han Yu, a master of literature, initiated the "ancient prose movement" and advocated returning to popular ancient prose. The classical Chinese in modern books are generally marked with punctuation marks in order to facilitate reading and understanding.
Classical Chinese comes from vernacular Chinese and is characterized by writing on the basis of words, so it pays attention to allusions, antithesis and neat melody without punctuation. Before the Vernacular Movement, except for vernacular novels, all articles were written in classical Chinese, including strategies, poems, words, songs, stereotyped writing and parallel prose.