Yongming was the title of Emperor Wu of Qi in the Southern Dynasties. Yongming style, also known as "new style poetry", requires strict four tones and eight diseases, and emphasizes rhyme and meter. The appearance of this poetic style has played a certain role in correcting the shortcomings of literati's poetic language since Jin and Song Dynasties and making the creation turn to fresh and smooth. It has a great influence on the formation of "modern poetry".
Zhou Qing, a phonologist at that time, discovered and founded the theory of four tones, and used four tones and two tones to study the coordination of sound, rhyme and tone in poetry, and put forward the theory that eight diseases (flat head, tail, bee waist, crane knee, big rhyme, small rhyme, positive button and side button) must be avoided. Yongming style is characterized by paying attention to four tones, avoiding eight diseases and emphasizing rhyme and meter.
Eight writers under Wang Xiao of Jingling in the Southern Dynasties: Xie Tiao, Li, Fan Li, Lu Shu (collectively called Eight Friends of Jingling) are all authors of Yongming style poems. Its representatives have always been Xie Tiao, Shen Yue and Wang Rong.
During the period from Qi Yongming to Chen Liang 100, there were more than 90 people including Wu Jun, He Xun, Yin Keng, Xu Ling and Yu Xin. , a useful attempt was made to the new style poetry, which laid the foundation for the emergence and development of metrical poetry in the Tang Dynasty.
According to historical records, there will be at least four literary groups in the year after tomorrow, namely: Wang Jian, the general of the Guards, Wang Xiaoliang Zi of Jingling, Wang Xiaoyi and Xiao Zilong of Sui Dynasty. Among them, Xiao Group has the longest existence, the largest number, the largest scale and the greatest influence. The vast majority of "Yongming Style" poets come from this group.
The main features of timeless style:
1, pay attention to rhythm, rhyme has been quite elegant, its main performance is that most people rhyme, rhyme is very strict. As for rhyme, many of them are close to the Tang Dynasty.
2. The length of the poem is greatly shortened, and the sentence patterns are gradually shaped, mainly in five words and four sentences, five words and eight sentences, and some in five words and ten sentences.
3. Pay attention to writing skills, parallelism and antithesis. Laws and sentences appear in large numbers, and some allusions naturally blend into poetry.
4. Get rid of the rigid style of Yuanjia style poetry in Liu and Song Dynasties, and pursue a beautiful and easy-to-understand poetic style that integrates scenery writing and lyricism.
5. Pay attention to the integrity of the beginning and end of the poem, the ingenious conception and the pursuit of the artistic conception of the poem.