(A) Tang Poetry: China is a country of poetry. Poetry can be roughly divided into two categories: one is irregular poetry or archaic poetry, such as The Book of Songs and Songs of the South; The other is metrical poetry. In a poem, the levels and rhymes of each word, three or four sentences and five or six sentences should be opposed respectively. The economic development of the Tang Empire will inevitably bring about cultural prosperity. With the integration of all ethnic groups in China and the increasingly frequent international cultural exchanges, the life of all classes and strata has become rich and complicated, which provides a variety of newspapers and materials for poetry creation. The system of selecting talents and appointing talents in the imperial examination formulated and implemented by the Tang Empire was mainly composed of poems and fu, and this mechanism also directly promoted the creation of poems.
Characteristics of Tang poetry: Tang poetry follows the court style in form, official business and content, with different melodies in different periods, or passionate or sentimental, or heroic and affectionate.
(2) Song Ci: It is the result of the transformation of The Book of Songs and Wei Yuefu and the continuous development of modern poetry in the Tang Dynasty. The biggest difference between words and poems is that poems are neat five or seven words (seven-character poems), while words are long and short sentences (miscellaneous poems), and the "words" of long and short sentences are filled in according to the beat of music. This is how the word came into being. The mature and prosperous period of Song Ci is the peak of Ci creation, both in quantity and quality. Song ci has been widely recognized and loved by people from all walks of life. Ci is deeply rooted in the cultural fertile soil of the broad masses of the people, and has achieved unprecedented development, becoming a representative of a literary style in a historical period.
The characteristics of Song Ci are: it is a new style poem that can be played together and pays attention to meter. It includes three elements: Yan music, folk songs and modern poetry. It is a new literary form with strong musicality, beautiful rhythm and rich flavor of life. Ci is closely related to poetry, which can be divided into two schools: bold and graceful.
(3) Yuanqu: In the Qing Dynasty, Li wrote "Yu Cun Qu Hua" and quoted "Xian Suobian", saying: "Three hundred poems are poems, poems become words, and words become songs." Qu Zao, written by Wang Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty, also said: "If you don't like it, there will be the Northern Song Dynasty, and if you don't like it, there will be the Southern Song Dynasty." This shows the origin of the song. The main difference between songs and words is that the number of words is limited, the number of words in songs is uncertain, and the rhyme of words is roughly in line with poetic rhyme. In the early stage, it was mainly literati and dramatists, and in the later stage, it produced professional Sanqu writers, which played an important role and made the music scene more colorful. Yuan Sanqu is divided into bold school and beautiful school.
Features of Yuanqu: Yuanqu uses dense rhymes, sometimes maintaining the rhyme of each sentence, even the rhyme within the sentence, while Yuanqu is even and even. Yuanqu, especially divertimento, has a lot of interludes. If we don't distinguish between orthography and interlining, the sentence patterns and parallel lines of the works will be unclear.