The ancients wrote poetry not according to the law of leveling, but in a natural and intentional way. However, due to the inherent four tones of Chinese characters (that is, "one palace and one business" as the ancients said), and people also pay attention to the cadence and melodiousness of poetry articles, the poems before Wei and Jin Dynasties are also very attractive to read. But if we pay attention to it, we can also find that it actually has no rice.
In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Indian Sanskrit was introduced, and many China scholars (such as Cao Zhi and Xie Lingyun) studied Sanskrit phonology, and made a lot of accumulation for applying it to Chinese phonology. When they arrived here, others creatively applied Sanskrit poetry to Chinese phonology, and wrote four tones (Shen Yue) and four tones (Qieyun). The main content of Yongming's poetic style is the theory of "four tones and eight diseases", which requires poetry to pay attention to the beauty of intricate and harmonious melody. Therefore, China's poetry has embarked on the road of legalization, that is, it requires neatness and uniformity, pays attention to the form of meter, and takes style and rhyme as the method.
In the Tang Dynasty, the beauty of metrical poems finally reached the extreme, which was manifested in the simplification of (1) metrical poems, (2) the development of couplet, and (3) the finalization of rhymes, so metrical poems were born. Therefore, people call the poems before the Tang Dynasty ancient poems, and the poems after the Tang Dynasty modern poems. And what we are talking about now is writing modern poetry. Later generations consciously inherited these pioneering works and rules of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, it is required to write modern poetry according to the flat and flat meter.
In fact, we can see that in this development process, the pursuit of musical beauty runs through.
1. Is it an ancient poem that is not written according to the rhyme?
Poems that are not written in accordance with the rules of flat and flat tones may be regarded as ancient poems, but they cannot be called modern poems.
Fiona Fang cannot be made without rules. Writing poetry is writing according to the requirements of poetry. Otherwise, the world will be in chaos.
2. What are the advantages of the flat rhyme of poetry?
In fact, the evaluation of 300 Tang poems can also be compared. In other words, not all the famous Tang poems have been selected in this book, but all the poems in the book are famous Tang poems.
Then, we can say that writing by flat beat may not necessarily reflect the beauty of music, but writing by flat beat will certainly reflect the beauty of music.
This is the advantage. If we can't create a new set of rules to overthrow our predecessors, then we must inherit them.
3. Isn't it enough to write a poem with rhyme and connotation, fluent sentences and coherent meaning? Why set the threshold of poetry so high? Isn't this daunting for many novices?
For the ancients, this threshold is not high, because they often speak like this at ordinary times, and this is how they are taught to write, whether it is poetry or articles. We modern people find it difficult because we advocated the study and writing of vernacular Chinese after the May 4th Movement, and we almost got rid of the old routine. Therefore, it is not that the ancients are difficult for today. Haven't you noticed that many excellent works have emerged in the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties since the Tang Dynasty? Isn't there a dime a dozen poems in Qing Dynasty?
The key is that it is too difficult for us to throw away these heritages for too long, and the cultural heritage is lacking.
Don't be afraid. I believe that if you have the heart, you can do it well.
Supplement: A good poem can be written according to the rhyme of a flat tone or not. Why do many people say that our poems here are not even-leveled, not poems at all? Are they stubborn? Or are we really wrong?
Because the research on the tone and rhyme of flat tones is obtained through a lot of practical explorations such as The Book of Songs and Yuefu Poems. And theorized by scholars, as mentioned above, "Writing according to rhyme may not necessarily reflect the beauty of music, but writing according to rhyme will certainly reflect the beauty of music." This is the advantage. If we can't create a new set of rules to overthrow our predecessors, then we must inherit them. "But if you just entertain yourself, then you can ignore other people's comments. If you want to achieve something in writing poetry, you still have to study hard. In addition, the actual level of some so-called poets on the Internet is still unknown. In addition, I always hear that the higher the level, the more modest.