China's classical poetry has some basic features:
First, from the linguistic point of view, both poetry and words have their own metrical patterns, especially metrical poems, which pay attention to flatness, adhesion, symmetry and antithesis, and also pay attention to melody and melody, which not only highlights the structure and rhythm of poetry, but also highlights the rhythm of poetry. This makes poetry have the beauty of cadence and rhythm.
Such as Wang Zhihuan's "Heron House", the mountains cover the day, and the sea drains the golden river. But when you go up a flight of stairs, you broaden your horizons by 300 miles. "It's flat and rhymes, and it's catchy to read. Another example is the most famous two sentences in Du Fu's Ascending the Mountain, "Leaves fall like waterfalls, but I think the long river always rolls forward", which is uniform and full of rhythm.
This strict requirement was summed up by the poet after nearly a thousand years of continuous exploration, and gradually became a creative law. Following this rule, the poems created will have a rhythmic beauty. Of course, this rule is also to express the emotion of poetry. The first meaning of poetry is to convey emotion, otherwise it is putting the cart before the horse.
Secondly, China's classical poems pay attention to expressing feelings with images. When appreciating poetry, there is a saying of "expressing one's will by supporting things", so this image of poetry lies in the diversification of forms on the one hand, and reflects life and expresses feelings in a highly concentrated and general way by using visualized things on the other hand.
For example, Li Shangyin's "A short message to friends in the north on a rainy night" "When you ask about the return date, it rains in the autumn pool at night. When * * * cut candles at the west window, but talked about the rain in the evening, several characters vividly wrote the wandering mood of homesickness. Another example is Yu Qian's Ode to Lime, "A thousand hammers cut out a deep mountain, and if the fire burns idle. I am not afraid of being smashed into pieces, but I want to remain innocent in the world. " The author uses lime as a metaphor to express his open mind and lofty personality.
Another example is Su Shi's "Niannujiao Chibi Nostalgia", "Looking back on Gong Jin in those days, Xiao Qiao was married for the first time, and he was spirited. Feather fan, black silk scarf, laughing and laughing "not only describes a romantic and elegant Zhou Yu, but also draws lessons from his admiration for Zhou Yu to set off his old age and inaction and express his feelings of nothing." "