Qi Yan's seven-character ancient poem was popular in the Qi and Liang Dynasties in China.
Seven-character ancient poetry is referred to as Qigu. Among ancient poems, it is the most lively form, the most diverse genre, the freest processing of syntax and rhyme, and the most expressive lyrical narrative. Poetry Each sentence in the whole article has seven characters or seven-character sentences are the main ones.
Simply put, it means longer length, larger capacity, and flexible rhyme. For example, Du Fu's representative works of seven-character ancient poems include "Watching Lady Gongsun's Disciples Dance with Swords and Prefaces" and "Pictures Presented to General Cao Ba".
Seven-character ancient poetry is a type of ancient Chinese poetry. Each sentence of the poem has seven characters or mainly seven-character sentences.
It originated from folk songs. In the pre-Qin period, in addition to the seven-character sentence pattern in "The Book of Songs" and "Chu Ci", Xunzi's "Chengxiang Pian" was a miscellaneous rhyme composed mainly of seven characters, imitating folk songs. During the Western Han Dynasty, in addition to "Louhu Ge" and "Shangjun Ge" recorded in "Hanshu", there were also seven-character popular verses such as "Fan Jiang Pian" by Sima Xiangru and "Jijiu Pian" by Shi You.
Classification of seven-character ancient poems:
Seven-character ancient poems are a general term for the seven ancient Japanese poems. The ancients' so-called seven-character poem did not mean that every sentence in the poem had seven characters, but that most of the sentences in the poem had seven characters.
For example, Li Bai's "The Road to Shu is Difficult" contains three words: "嘫嘫_", four words: "The danger is so high", and five words: "There are thickets of silkworms and fishtails, how confused the founding of the country is", and " "On the top is the high mark of the six dragons returning to the sun, and below is the rushing wave and turning back to Sichuan." It has nine words, but it is still regarded as a seven-character song line, not a miscellaneous poem.
Poetry commentators since the Ming and Qing Dynasties have two opinions on the classification of seven-character ancient poetry. One is that Qigu and seven-character poetry are the same and can be substituted for each other. For example, Hu Yinglin's "Shi Sou" " says: "Seven-character ancient poems are generally called song lines."
Wang Shi's "Selected Ancient Poems" is directly divided into two parts: five-character poems and seven-character poems. In poetry reviews of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Qigu and Qixingge were referred to as each other, and there are countless examples.