Jueju is a form of ancient Chinese poetry, which means that four words are one sentence, two sentences are one sentence and eight characters are one song. The quatrains are concise in form and sincere in feelings. They belong to elegant works and are suitable for expressing the poet's short and capable emotional experience. Quatrains are the earliest form of quatrains in ancient China, much earlier than the appearance of metrical poems.
The appearance of ancient quatrains can be traced back to the Book of Songs, and many of them are in the form of quatrains, such as "The pigeon of Guanju is in the river continent" in Guanju. The beautiful and virtuous woman is a good spouse of a gentleman. ".This is an ancient prototype. The quatrains in The Book of Songs are of high expression and literary value, which have influenced the form and aesthetics of later poems.
In the Tang Dynasty, ancient treasures were more widely used and developed. The Tang Dynasty was the golden age of China's poetry development. During this period, a large number of famous poets were good at writing ancient poems, such as Wang Zhihuan's In the Heron Tower, Bai Juyi's Farewell to Ancient Grass and Du Fu's Delighting in Rain on a Spring Night. These ancient poets expressed their feelings through quatrains and created countless beautiful poems, which not only influenced the literature at that time, but also had a far-reaching impact on the literature of later generations.
Rhyme was formed from the late Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. It is a form of China's ancient poetry, and it also belongs to the genre of quatrains. However, metrical poetry requires strict rules of leveling, defining words and rhyming, and gradually develops a form of integration of rhythm and abstinence. Although the form of metrical poetry is more rigorous, it is still a bit stiff compared with the simplicity and freshness of ancient times.
Quatrains are the earliest quatrains in China's ancient poems. , an era earlier than formal poetry. As a literary form, archaism has a high literary value and humanistic significance, which has had an important impact on the poetry creation of later generations, and also made us have a deeper understanding of the aesthetic taste and literary talent of the ancients.
The difference between the two
Although ancient quatrains and metrical poems are both quatrains, they are quite different. The ancient style emphasizes emotional expression, its form is relatively simple, and it pays attention to the expression of brushwork and artistic conception; The requirements of metrical poetry are more stringent, requiring rhythm to conform to the regulations, and paying attention to the treatment of rhythm and rhyme.