Information and Classification of Ancient Poetry

The classification of ancient poetry has different classifications and ideological centers according to different standards. For example, it can be divided into pre-Qin poetry, Qin and Han poetry, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties poetry, Sui and Tang Dynasties poetry, Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties poetry, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties poetry, Republic of China modern poetry and modern poetry.

For example, according to the number of words, it can be divided into four-character poems, five-character poems, six-character poems, seven-character poems, eight-character poems, nine-character poems and miscellaneous poems.

The ancient poetic style before the Tang Dynasty is a poetic style that does not pay attention to meter and has no limitation on the number of words and sentences. After the Tang Dynasty, due to the appearance of modern poetry, poets deliberately imitated the writing style of ancient poetry in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties in order to distinguish ancient poetry from new metrical poetry, and restricted it in some aspects, thus forming a fixed pattern of ancient poetry in the Tang Dynasty. As a result, the completely free poetic style before the Tang Dynasty was changed into a semi-free poem between metrical poetry and free poetry.

The number of words and lines in classical poetry;

Classical poetry has no fixed verse and style. All ancient poems are classified according to the number of words in the poem. Four-character ancient poems are referred to as four-character ancient poems for short; Five-character ancient poems are referred to as five-character ancient poems for short; Seven-character ancient poems are referred to as seven-character ancient poems for short. Four-character poems were adopted by people as early as the Book of Songs. But it gradually declined in the Tang Dynasty, and few people wrote it. Therefore, ancient poetry is still expressed in five words and seven words.

Five-character ancient poetry is the orthodoxy of ancient poetry, and many people write it.

Seven-character ancient poetry is not the mainstream of classical poetry, because it originated late. Therefore, the seven-character style is greatly influenced by the seven-character modern poetry.

Five-character ancient poems and seven-character ancient poems are both ancient poems with neat words. There is also a kind of ancient poetry with mixed words, and the length between the lines is different and uneven. ... sub-material