Rhyme is a popular genre of Chinese poetry in Tang Dynasty, which belongs to a kind of modern poetry, and is named because of its strict metrical requirements. The common types are five laws and seven laws, and there are generally a few words to say.
Metric poems originated from Shen Yue and other new-style poems that emphasized the antithesis of metrical poems in the Southern Dynasties, and were further developed and stereotyped by Shen Quanqi and Song Wenzhi in the early Tang Dynasty, which prevailed in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Rhyme has strict rules in word, rhyme, even tone and antithesis.
Genre evolution
Rhyme is one of the basic forms of modern poetry (in the Tang Dynasty, rhyme was used as a general term for modern poetry, including modern quatrains, which were later divided). It sprouted from Shen Yue's new-style poems which focused on rhythm and antithesis, sprouted in the Qi Yongming period of the Southern Dynasties, took shape in the early years of the prosperous Tang Dynasty and matured in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.
There are three types of physical metrical poems in Qi and Liang Dynasties: comparison (referring to the metrical form in which all poems are not adhered to each other), adhesion (referring to the metrical form in which all poems are adhered to each other) and mixed rhythm (referring to the metrical form in which all poems are adhered to each other), but comparison is the main one, which is far from perfect modern poetry.
Among them, from the middle and late Liang Dynasty to Chen, there are some works by Yin Keng, Yu Xin, Xu Ling and others. It is very close to the regular poems of the Tang Dynasty. Su Yang, Lu Sidao, Xue Daoheng and others in the Sui Dynasty, combined with the gorgeous ci works in the Southern Dynasty and the fresh and vigorous atmosphere in the northern region, created some beautiful and healthy poems, which pointed out the direction for the development of poetry in the transitional period.