Ci is a kind of poetry. Because it is the lyrics of music and harmony, it is also called tune, Yuefu, music movement, long and short sentences, poetry, piano music and so on. It began in the Sui Dynasty, took shape in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the national music imported from the western regions gradually merged with the old music of the Central Plains, and Hu music was the main music that produced Yan music. The original neat five-character seven-character poem is no longer suitable, so there are words with different words and more lively forms.
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Ci originated in Nanliang, formed in the Tang Dynasty, and reached its peak in the Song Dynasty after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The formal characteristics of words are "the tone has a fixed frame and the sentence has flaws." According to Old Tang Book; "Since Kaiyuan (the year of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty), singers have mixed the songs of Okoyi Lane."
Due to the wide spread of music; At that time, there were many talented musicians in the city who made a living by singing. According to the need to coordinate the lyrics with the music beat, they created or adapted some long and short sentence lyrics, which are the earliest words. It can also be seen from Dunhuang Quzi Ci that the words produced by the people are decades earlier than those created by the literati.
Most of the folk words in the Tang Dynasty reflect themes such as love and acacia, so they are not elegant in the eyes of literati and are regarded as poems. Only those who pay attention to absorbing the artistic advantages of folk songs, such as Bai Juyi and Liu Yuxi, write some words with simple and natural style and full of rich life flavor. Wen and the "Huajian School" in the Five Dynasties are famous for their rich rhetoric.
Wen is the first writer to express lyric poetry in the history of China literature, with about 70 poems. The theme is narrow, mainly boudoir, and the opening words are the first of their kind. The style is beautiful and generous. It has a certain position in the history of ci development. However, Li Houzhu's poems after his capture in the Southern Tang Dynasty opened up a new and profound artistic realm, which strongly infected later poets.
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