What is an acrostic poem?
It is enough to meet two points:
First, acrostic poems
Second, it is a poem
Acrostic poems are one of the most popular poems in poetry. A special form of poetry that uses the first word of each line to embed a word in the content you want to express. The first word in each sentence of the whole poem forms a complete name of a person, place, company or a blessing. Acrostic poems are profound in meaning, high in taste, and of great value. They can be said to be worth a thousand dollars.
In the Garden of Chinese Poetry, in addition to common poems, lyrics, and songs, there are also a large number of alternative poems—miscellaneous poems. The representative ones include: loop poems, peeling poems, acrostic poems, pagoda poems, word puzzle poems, windlass poems, eight-tone poems, acrostic poems, doggerel poems, humorous poems, collection poems, couplet poems, hundred-year poems, There are more than 40 kinds of poems with inlaid lines, Juexian poems, and theosophical poems. These miscellaneous poems have their own characteristics, have certain ideological and artistic qualities, are deeply loved by people, and have been passed down to this day.
Acrostic poetry, also known as "acrostic poetry", is a type of miscellaneous poetry. It has three forms: one is the first couplet and the second couplet in which the six sentences all describe the scene; Instead of revealing the meaning of the title, the theme is not revealed until the connection is made; the second is to hide the first word of the poem in the last word; the third is to hide what is said at the beginning of the poem. What is common now is the third type. The first word of each sentence is read together to convey some unique thoughts of the author.
From ancient times to the present, acrostic poems have been mostly circulated among the people, or scattered in classical operas and novels. For example, in "Water Margin", in Liangshan, in order to recruit Lu Junyi to join the gang, "Wu Yongzhi" Wu Yong and Song Jiang came up with a story of "Wu Yongzhi earns jade unicorns". They used Lu Junyi's fear of avoiding the "bloody disaster" to hide the "Lu Junyi rebellion". Words spread widely. As a result, it became evidence for the government to punish him, and finally "forced" Lu Junyi to Liangshan. The four-line hexagram song of Kou Zhan:
A small boat among the reed flowers,
A handsome man traveled from here.
If a righteous man can understand this principle, he will have no worries if he refuses to surrender. < /p>
Welcome to the house with sorrow and watch the purple swallows fly,
I am too old to return to the spring,
It is better to return home than to live in a painted building. .
There are also masters of acrostic poetry among literati and officials. For example, Xu Wei (also known as Wen Chang), a great scholar in the Ming Dynasty, visited the West Lake. Facing the beautiful scenery of the autumn moon over Pinghu, he impromptuly wrote a poem that contained the four words "Autumn Moon over Pinghu":
Pinghu is one color and thousands of acres of autumn,
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The lake is dim and the water flows.
The full moon in autumn is rare in the world.
The four seasons of the year are most suitable for autumn when the moon is bright.
Among today’s literate people, there are some who can use acrostic poems just right. Wu Xiaoli, the leading female dancer of Phoenix TV in Hong Kong, sent a congratulatory message when she was a guest of "West China Metropolis Daily":
The light of China,
The leader of the west,
Metropolis Magnificent,
town pride,
a pioneer in the newspaper industry.
If you read it carefully, it is also an acrostic poem. The first word of each poem is "West China Metropolis Daily".
In recent years, the educational community has also begun to pay attention to this kind of weird poetry style, believing that acrostic poetry has a certain promoting effect on speeding up the brain operation efficiency of young people, enriching their vocabulary, and improving their language proficiency. On March 30, relevant people from Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Beijing Folk Literature and Artists Association and other organizations announced the official launch of "Learn to write acrostic poems and create a folk literature inheritance base" at Beijing Chongwenmen Muslim Primary School. This practice of allowing children to try out weird poetry creation aroused controversy in academic circles as soon as word spread. Zhao Shu, vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the Beijing People's Political Consultative Conference, believes: "Acrostic poetry is a unique cultural phenomenon in our country. As a folk cultural heritage, it should be infiltrated into the education of primary school students so that it can be passed on."
Of course, acrostics, like other literary forms, can cause unnecessary trouble if used improperly. On November 15, 2004, Convenient Glasses City published an advertisement with its own slogan in the "Qian'an News" newspaper, which read:
Convenience and integrity are large-scale,
Send light to the aspirations of the people.
Great achievements are neither arrogant nor humble,
Bold innovation is unprecedented.
Each sentence of the advertisement was arranged up and down in the newspaper. The first word of the four sentences read "Convenience is Great", and the last word read "Great Ming Dynasty". After the advertisement was published, Daming Optical Co., Ltd. took it to court. The court held that Convenience Optical City publicly promoted itself and belittled others, damaging the reputation of Daming Optical Co., Ltd., which was an illegal act. In view of the defendant's subjective and intentional fault, it was ordered that Convenience Optical City should restore the reputation of Daming Optical Co., Ltd. and apologize in the "Qian'an News" newspaper.