Quatrains, also known as truncated sentences, broken sentences, short sentences and quatrains, belong to a form of modern poetry. Jueju originated from the ballads of the Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and its name began in the Southern Dynasties. There are different interpretations of it, and some people think that the "half-cutting method" is convenient for singing.
Quatrains are composed of four sentences, which are divided into quatrains and archaic quatrains, among which quatrains have strict metrical requirements. Common quatrains include five-character quatrains and seven-character quatrains, while six-character quatrains are rare. According to the poetic law, quatrains are divided into ancient quatrains and metrical poems. The ancient quatrains appeared before the appearance of the metrical poems, and the quatrains appeared after the rise of the metrical poems.
The quatrains originated from the short chapters of Yuefu in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, and their names may come from the "couplets" written by literati in the Six Dynasties. According to the literature, there was a custom of writing poems in the banquets of literati in the Six Dynasties, and each person wrote four sentences and five words to synthesize a whole poem. If you cut off what everyone has done and do a separate article, it is called "unique skill", and the name of the quatrains comes from this.
At the beginning of the Six Dynasties, the word quatrain only refers to a small poem with five words and four sentences, and it was extended to seven words after the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, due to the change of musical tune, the old Yuefu poems often could not be accompanied by music, so musicians often sang quatrains created by literati, which was an important reason for the prevalence of quatrains in the Tang Dynasty.
Ancient quatrains, that is, quatrains, are a kind of quatrains opposite to metrical quatrains. Although it rhymes, it is relatively free, or some poets don't want to be bound by meter. After the popularization of law, ancient laws are still used and developed. There are many words in ancient times, but seven words are rare.
Origin of March 3rd:
The third day of the third lunar month, also known as Shangsi Festival, is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, with Han, Zhuang, Miao and Yao as typical examples. March 3 is still a grand festival in some minority areas in southwest China.
The third day of March (Shangsi Festival) has a very long history, and it is the most important festival in ancient times. In ancient times, the third day of the third month of the third lunar month was regarded as "Shangsi". There were many days on the third day of March, and later the date of Shangsi Festival was fixed on the third day of March, which was inherited by later generations.
The third day of the third lunar month is a traditional festival for many ethnic groups in China, among which the Zhuang nationality is a typical one. In ancient times, young men and women of Zhuang nationality gathered in the street to sing and held banquets by the river. According to Zhuang legend, March 3rd is the birthday of Buluotuo, the ancestor of Zhuang nationality, and the Han people celebrate Shangsi Festival. March 3 is still a grand festival in some minority areas in southwest China.