We often say that practicing calligraphy helps to enrich the knowledge of the rich, because in the process of practicing calligraphy, we are not only writing strokes, but also inheriting culture.
Combining calligraphy with the study of ancient poetry not only gives children the content material to practice calligraphy, but also deepens their impression of ancient poetry in the process of writing, helping children to better remember poetry, which is a good thing with multiple goals.
Ancient poems:
Classical poetry is a genre of poetry. Judging from the number of words in poetry, there are so-called four-character poems, five-character poems, seven-character poems and miscellaneous poems. Four words are four words, five words are five words and seven words are seven words. After the Tang dynasty, it was called modern poetry, so it was usually divided into five words and seven words. Five-character ancient poems are referred to as five ancient poems for short; Seven-character ancient poems are referred to as seven ancient poems for short, and those who use three, five and seven characters at the same time are generally considered as seven ancient poems.
Features:
Classical poetry is a kind of poetry as opposed to modern poetry. Before the formation of modern poetry, there were many schools of Chinese poetry. Also known as the ancient style of ancient poetry, there are three carriers of "Song", "Xing" and "Yin". Four-character poems no longer exist in modern poetry. Although the word "ancient" is not added, it goes without saying that it is an ancient poem.
The ancient poems included in The Book of Songs are mainly four-character poems. Four-character poems were still written in Han Dynasty and Wei and Jin Dynasties. Cao Cao's Looking at the Sea and Tao Yuanming's Stopping Clouds are typical four-character poems. There are many ancient poems with five words and seven words, referred to as five ancient poems and seven ancient poems for short.
Other styles:
Miscellaneous poems, named after the different lengths of sentences in the poems, have variable numbers of words, the shortest is only one word, and the long sentences are more than nine spans, mostly three, four, five and seven words. It is characterized by its relatively free form, which is convenient for expressing thoughts and feelings freely. Any poet who wins by emotion or momentum has a great preference for miscellaneous poems.
The metrical poems in China's ancient poetry reached its peak in the middle Tang Dynasty (the representative poet was Du Fu). Because its poetic beauty space has been excavated by the great poets in the Tang Dynasty, the metrical poems in China in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties developed into miscellaneous poems, which formed a backlash against the metrical poems, resulting in some rigidity in form and eventually shaped into a systematic form of "Ci".