Ancient poetry is the general name of ancient Chinese poetry, which refers to 1840 China's poems before the Opium War. From the perspective of meter, ancient poetry can be divided into ancient poetry and modern poetry. Taking the Tang Dynasty as the boundary, the previous poems were all ancient poems, and later, the ancient poems gradually declined and died out. Ancient poetry is also called ancient poetry or ancient style; Modern poetry is also called modern poetry. From the Book of Songs to Yu Xin in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they are all ancient poems, but the poems after the Tang Dynasty are not necessarily modern poems, but they are distinguished according to rhyme. These are generally called ancient poems.
Ci is another literary genre, belonging to a different poetic style, which sprouted in the Southern Dynasties and is a new literary style that rose in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, after a long period of continuous development, Ci entered its heyday. The original name of the word is "Quci" or "Quci", and it is also called: near-style Yuefu, long and short sentences, Quci, music movement, fun, idle poems and so on. It is a song and poem full of feasts, and the epigraph is the name of the tone of the word. Different epigrams have regulations on the total number of words, the number of sentences, the number of words per sentence and the level.
Ancient poetry is a big concept, including ancient poetry and ci.