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Classification of ancient poetry 1. According to the genre, it can be divided into: 1. Classical poetry: Classical poetry refers to the poems before the Tang Dynasty, including The Book of Songs, Songs of the South and Yuefu Poems. Poems such as Song, Gexing, Quotations, Qu and Ling are also ancient poems. It is characterized by not paying attention to antithesis, levelness and freedom of rhyme. The development track of classical poetry: The Book of Songs → Songs of Chu → Han Yuefu → Folk songs in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties → Jian 'an poems → Five-character poems by literati such as Tao poems → Ancient Style and New Yuefu in Tang Dynasty. Note: ① Three characters, four characters, five characters, six characters, seven characters and miscellaneous characters appeared earlier in the pre-Qin period. Four words are like the Book of Songs, five words are like nineteen ancient poems, and six words are like Qu Yuan's Li Sao. ② Yuefu poetry originated in the Western Han Dynasty. It refers to the music songs collected and created by Yuefu officials, and also refers to the poems that can be appreciated from the Wei, Jin and Tang Dynasties and the works that imitate the ancient themes of Yuefu in later generations. For example, Shang Yang and Peacock in the Han Yuefu flew southeast. Some appellations include Song, Xing, Gexing, Yin and Qu. For example, Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow and Pipa Travel are all works that imitate the ancient poems of Yuefu. 2. Modern poetry: also known as modern poetry, it is the general name of metrical poems and quatrains formed in the Tang Dynasty. There are strict rules on the number, number of words, level and rhyme of sentences. (1) quatrains, from the formal point of view is four sentences. It is mainly composed of five words and seven words, which are called five musts and seven musts. (2) Rhyme, formally speaking, is eight sentences. It is divided into four parts, which are called the first joint, parallel joint, neck joint and tail joint. The two leagues in the middle must fight each other.