In the era of The Book of Songs, the dominant form of poetry is four-character poetry. Under its influence, ancient poetry gradually formed a rhythmic feature of taking two syllables (that is, two Chinese characters) as a beat.
Such as "past me/past me, willow/yiyi; Today I/think, rain and snow/rain "The Book of Songs"? Xiaoya? Pick the European Union.
Although Wuqizi poetry is mainly composed of two syllables in one beat, it is different from four-character poetry and six-character poetry in that it has an abnormal monosyllable in addition to several complete beats. Wuqizi poetry is composed of two beats and an abnormal monosyllable, while Qiqizi poetry is composed of three beats and one monosyllable. Monosyllabic words have two functions: first, it is easier to reflect the rhythmic beauty brought by poetry rhyme. The rhythms of five words and seven words are generally 22 1 and 22 1 1. The second function is to make poetry more beautiful in setbacks and changes.
Such as: tide level/sides/width, positive wind/sail/suspension. Wang Wan's Lonely Mountain in Northern Jiangsu.
The five-seven-character poem has become the mainstream form of classical poetry, which is also closely related to its strong meaning expression function. It is found that the abnormal monosyllables in each sentence are so conspicuous that they naturally become the center of expression. Of course, according to the need of meaning, the position of monosyllables can be placed not only at the end of the sentence, but also in the sentence.
In this way, there are two common meaning structures in ancient poetry: one is the ending monosyllabic. The five-character poem 22 1 and the seven-character poem 222 1 are in line with the rhythm of natural classics. Second, monosyllables in sentences. Wuyan 2 12 and Qiyan Poetry 22 12 are also very common.
Such as: domestic/deposit/bosom friend, Tianya/Ruo/Neighbor. Wang Bo's "Send to Read Shaofu Ren".
Features:
Classical poetry is a kind of poetry as opposed to modern poetry. Before the formation of modern poetry, various schools of 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.
The ancient Five Dynasties first appeared in the Han Dynasty. Nineteen ancient poems, all five-character poems. After the Han Dynasty, many people wrote five-character poems. Most of the poems in the Southern and Northern Dynasties are five-character poems, and there are more five-character poems in the Tang Dynasty and later. The appearance of the Seven Ancient Dynasties may be earlier than that of the Five Ancient Dynasties. But before the Tang Dynasty, it was not as common as the Five Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, seven ancient books appeared in large numbers, which were also called long sentences by the Tang people.
Miscellaneous poems are also unique to ancient poetry. Poetry varies in length, from one word to more than one cross. Generally, it is a mixture of three, four, five and seven words, and seven words are the main ones, so it is customarily classified as ancient seven words. There are many miscellaneous poems in The Book of Songs and Han Yuefu folk songs.