Ancient poetry mainly refers to ancient poems and essays with a long history and rich cultural connotations in China, such as The Book of Songs and Historical Records. As far as China culture is concerned, it is popular to write poems in the Tang Dynasty, such as quatrains (such as Li Bai's "Early Sending Baidicheng") and regular poems (such as Du Fu's "Landing"); Most popular words in Song Dynasty have epigraph names (such as Bodhisattva Man); The songs in the Yuan Dynasty are famous (such as Dou Eyuan by Guan Hanqing), and there are many names of songs and tunes.
Poetry is divided into ancient poetry and modern poetry. The earliest form of classical poetry is four-character ancient poetry. It is mellow and simple, simple and elegant, mainly appearing in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Later, it developed into a five-character ancient poem, mainly composed of Han Yuefu poems. After that, there are seven-character ancient poems, and the founder is Cao Pi. Then he entered modern poetry.
Five-character poems are the earliest, followed by seven-character poems, five-character quatrains and seven-character quatrains. Generally speaking, classical poetry is more free and casual, while modern poetry, especially Tang and Song poetry, is very important. As the representative of modern poetry, Tang poetry and Song poetry are worthy of our careful reading.
Introduction to Tang poetry:
Tang poetry generally refers to poems written in the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty is considered to be the dynasty with the richest old poems in China, so it is called Tang Poetry and Song Poetry. Most of the Tang poems are included in The Complete Poems of Tang Poetry. Since the Tang Dynasty, anthologies of Tang poetry have emerged continuously, and the most widely spread is "Three Hundred Tang Poems" compiled by retired scholars in Hengtang. The creation of Tang poetry can be divided into four stages according to time: early Tang, prosperous Tang, middle Tang and late Tang.
There were many poets in the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi and Wang Wei are world-famous great poets. Besides them, there are countless other poets, like the stars all over the sky.
Tang poetry has a wide range of themes. Some of them reflected the class status and class contradictions of the society at that time and exposed the darkness of feudal society; Some praise the just war and express patriotic thoughts; Some depict the beauty of the motherland's rivers and mountains; In addition, some people express their personal ambitions and experiences, some express their children's love, some tell the friendship of friends, the joys and sorrows of life and so on. In short, natural phenomena, political dynamics, working life, social customs and personal feelings can't escape the poet's keen eyes and become the subject matter of their writing.