The differences between Tang and Song Ci and their causes

Poetry of Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, commonly known as "tang style Song Yu", is the brightest pearl and treasure in the traditional poetry culture of China. Accurately speaking, the Tang Dynasty was the era of poetry, while the Song Dynasty was the era of ci. Different times determine different styles, and there must be different essential differences.

Tang poetry and Song ci are two different styles.

History entered the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and the culture of the prosperous Tang Dynasty flourished with the development of the times. Tang poetry came into being and developed into the heyday of poetry. Poetry is an ancient style in China, and Qu Yuan is the pioneer of China's poetry. The Book of Songs was born in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Later, with the passage of time, it evolved into five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains and long narrative poems, which produced a large number of famous poets in the Tang Dynasty, among whom Li Bai was an outstanding representative.

Song ci is a new style developed on the basis of Tang poetry. Song ci has a fixed epigraph name and rhythm, and it is strict with sentences and words. Different aphorisms have different formats and different words. Song Dynasty is the peak of the emergence and development of Song Ci, and a large number of excellent poetry works and excellent poets were born.

Therefore, there is a link between Tang poetry and Song poetry, and there are differences in form and essence. The significant differences are as follows:

The first is the different forms of expression.

Tang poetry appears in the form of five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains, five-character poems and seven-character poems. Mainly four or eight sentences, each with five or seven words. However, some poets in the Tang Dynasty also used classical poems with relatively free sentences, so the relative number of sentences and words were very free and loose.

Song Ci is a popular poetic genre in Song Dynasty. Its sentence pattern is stipulated by epigrams, and it has its own fixed sentence pattern and rhythm, so it is rare that the number of words in each sentence is the same. Therefore, words are also called long and short sentences, which is the fundamental difference in form between words and poems.

Secondly, the content of inscriptions and postscripts in Tang poetry and Song poetry is different.

Tang poetry mainly expresses personal aspirations, ideals and political demands. Song Ci, on the other hand, takes describing inner feelings and feelings as the mainstream. Therefore, there are obvious differences in connotation between the two.

Thirdly, the expressive functions of Tang poetry and Song poetry are different.

The biggest difference between Tang poetry and Song poetry lies in the way of expression. Tang poetry expresses the poet's ambition, emotion and elegant inner world in an elegant way.

The Tang people showed an open and bold character. Song people, on the other hand, pursued hedonism and life satisfaction to release their individuality. Two different times, different mentalities, different expressions and different essential connotations will certainly form the fundamental differences and differences between Tang poetry and Song poetry.