Original text:
"Two orioles sing green willows, and egrets cover the sky."
My window framed the snow-covered western hills. My door often says "goodbye" to ships sailing eastward.
Translation:
Two orioles sang tactfully among the green willows, and a group of neat egrets went straight into the blue sky. Sitting by the window, you can see the snow accumulated all the year round on Xiling Mountain, and ships from Dongwu, thousands of miles away, are parked in front of the door.
Such a poem is beautiful in itself, with four sentences in pairs. There have been quatrains since the Six Dynasties. After the Tang Dynasty, quatrains became a very mature art, and many of our famous poems used quatrains.
What is a seven-character poem?
Seven-character metrical poetry is a genre of China's traditional poetry, referred to as seven-character eight-sentence poetry for short, which conforms to the norms of metrical poetry. Metric poetry belongs to the category of modern poetry, hence its name.
Shen Yue's new-style poems originated from Qi Yongming in the Southern Dynasties, paying attention to rhythm and duality. They were further developed and stereotyped by Shen Quanqi and Song in the early Tang Dynasty and matured by Du Fu in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Seven-character verse is strict, which requires the unity of words in the poem. It consists of eight sentences, and each sentence has seven words. Every two sentences are a couplet, and * * * is a quadruple, which is divided into first couplet, parallel couplet, neck couplet and tail couplet. The two couplets in the middle demand antithesis. Representative works include the Yellow Crane Tower in Cui Hao, Du Fu's Ascending, and Li Shangyin's Stabilizing Tower.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Seven-character Rhyme