The epigraph is the name of the word format, and the biggest difference between words and poems is the difference in format. There are only four formats of formal poems, but words can have thousands of different formats. This is the so-called epigram. In fact, the "poems" we see today are all songs of the ancients, and the words are filled in by poets specially for songs. There are many different types of ancient poems, including ancient poems and modern poems. Maybe many friends still don't know the difference between them. This time, I will introduce them to you. Let's take a look at them together.
China's ancient poems can be divided into ancient poems, modern poems, epigrams and Sanqu. The similarities and differences between them are quite obvious.
Classical poetry refers to all poems that do not follow the rules of leveling. Although epigrams are not as organized as metrical poems, with long and short sentences and rhyming, which are similar to classical poems, epigrams are more rigorous than modern poems.
In other words, epigraph is a well-defined poetic form with melody, and it also belongs to the category of poetry.
In fact, Ci originally evolved from poetry, so it is also called "poetry".
Ci, born out of poetry, is a substitute for folk music after the elegance of poetry. From this point of view, words are the same as early poems, and they are all used for singing. However, after entering the Han Dynasty, a large number of literati and poetry works appeared, but the music failed to keep up, and "disciple songs" appeared, and poetry gradually separated from music and existed independently. In the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, poetry began to be refined in collation, became a form of imperial examination, and created a modern poetry format. By the Song Dynasty, poetry was completely tall.
However, people still need entertainment and singing, resulting in relatively flexible formats of words and matching music. The earliest Quzi Ci was discovered in Dunhuang in the early Tang Dynasty. In the middle Tang Dynasty, Ci began to move towards the literati class after being sorted out and recreated by great poets such as Li Bai, Bai Juyi and Liu Yuxi. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, epigrams became the hobby of nobles and even emperors, and their status gradually changed, leaving singers to sing the first-person narrator and becoming the literary carrier for literati to express their feelings.
However, in the development process of epigraph, it has always been humble. Even in the Song Dynasty, when epigrams flourished, scholars still treated poems and words separately. Poetry is used to express national affairs and wishes, while inscriptions are used to entertain and express small emotions. It was not until Su Shi and Xin Qiji began to add words boldly that poetry began to merge in creation.
However, the mainstream is still Li Qingzhao's "Ci is different from one family", and most scholars still distinguish poetry clearly in content and emotional expression.
At the same time, with the intervention of a large number of high-level literati, the theme of ci was boldly and elegantly reformed, and long-tune poems were leveled. Following the footsteps of Tang poetry, Song Ci gradually became independent from music and became a kind of chanting object.
However, after the appearance of classical poetry, although it has been going its own way, that is, it doesn't care about flat and even metrical, and occasionally there are long and short sentences, which rhyme flexibly and turn to rhyme halfway. But we can see that these characteristics are actually similar to aphorisms, except that ancient poems are used to recite, so they can be long or short and more flexible. Musical films corresponding to words are fixed and rhythmic, and the number of words is also fixed. Although rhyme is more flexible than metrical poetry, it is not limited at all than modern poetry.
Once the literary form has better rules, such as meter, even ancient poems that don't pay attention to meter will be unconsciously reflected by poets who have been educated in Pinge since childhood. This is the "ancient law" that appeared in the late Tang Dynasty.
In fact, now that you are writing an ancient poem, you will inadvertently write a sentence along the level tone. This is the inevitable occurrence of Chinese phonology in China, but it does not conform to the strict rules of modern poetry.
In other words, the truly primitive ancient poetry has disappeared. Later poets either wrote modern poems or wrote "ancient rhyme". If this "ancient rhyme" is suitable for music to sing, isn't it a epigraph? Just because of the long time, most of these songs have been lost, and epigrams have become the norm of words, fluency and rhyme. Therefore, those who conform to the rules are epigrams, and those who do not conform to these epigrams are ancient poems.
Poetry works are subdivided from the evolution of ancient poetry, but they have developed into their own schools.
This is a true near-physics poem, epigram and Sanqu.