A seven-character ancient poem.
Ancient poems are classified according to the number of words: two words, three words, four words, five words, six words, seven words, eight words, nine words and miscellaneous words.
1. Four-character style.
The four-character style was popular in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Except for "Chu Ci", there were not many other poems. Four-character poetry is the earliest poetry style produced in ancient times. The "Guofeng", "Xiaoya" and "Daya" in the "Book of Songs" all use four-character poetry as the basic genre. In other classics of the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties, such as "Mai Xiu Ge" recorded in "Historical Records", "Song Cheng Zi Xi" and "Zi Chan Chan" recorded in "Zuo Zhuan", they are also mainly in four-character style.
2. Five-character style.
Five-character poetry, an ancient poetry genre. It refers to a poem with five characters in each sentence, and the whole poem is composed of five-character sentences. Five-character poems can accommodate more words, thereby expanding the capacity of poetry and enabling more flexible and detailed lyricism and narrative.
In terms of syllables, the odd and even matches are also richer in musical beauty. Five-character poems are poems with five characters in each sentence. As an independent poetry style, it originated in the Western Han Dynasty and matured in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
3. Six-character style.
The six-character poem is a genre of old poetry. The whole poem has six characters and one sentence. It has already sprouted in the Book of Songs. Six-character prose sentences were first scattered in The Book of Songs. There are single sentences and even sentences. The complete and standardized six-character poem only appeared during the Jian'an period. The earliest and most complete six-character poems in existence are three six-character poems by Kong Rong.
4. Seven-character style.
Seven-character poems include seven-character ancient poems (referred to as Qigu), seven-character rhymed poems (referred to as Qilu) and seven-character quatrains (referred to as Qijue). Heptagram is an ancient poetry style, with each sentence having seven characters or mainly seven-character sentences.
It originated from Han folk songs. From the Liang Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, the number of seven-character poems gradually increased, and it was not until the Tang Dynasty that seven-character poems became truly developed. The emergence of the seven-character poem provides a new and larger-capacity form for poetry, enriching the artistic expression of Chinese classical poetry.
5. Miscellaneous words.
Miscellaneous poems are named because the number of words in the sentences in the poems is mixed. The number of words in the sentences is variable, the shortest is only one word, and the long sentences have more than nine or more words, with three, four, five, and There are many people with seven alternating characters.
It is characterized by a relatively free form, which facilitates the unrestricted expression of thoughts and feelings. The uniform metrical poetry of ancient Chinese poetry reached its peak in the mid-Tang Dynasty (the representative poet is Du Fu). Because its formal poetic beauty space has been exploited by the great poets of the Tang Dynasty and has limited space left, the rhythm of China in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties Poetry developed into miscellaneous poetry, forming a backlash against the uniformity of metrical poetry that resulted in a somewhat rigid form, and was finally shaped into the institutional form of miscellaneous poetry called "ci".