Classical poetry, as opposed to modern poetry. Before the formation of modern poetry, all kinds of poetry genres except Chu Ci. It is also called archaic poetry, but it is by no means archaic. It has only three carriers: Song, Xing and Yin. Classical poetry is free in meter, without antithesis, even in level, wide in rhyme and unlimited in length. There are four words, five words, six words, seven words and miscellaneous sentences.
Ancient poems before the Tang Dynasty are generally called ancient poems, but few people write them now. Metric poems, including metrical poems and quatrains, are called modern poems or modern poems. The ancients called them that, and so do we now. Although they are actually very old, they originated from Qi Liang in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and matured in the early Tang Dynasty. Poems before the Tang Dynasty, except the so-called Qi Liang style, are all called ancient styles. Poetry that does not conform to the modern style after the Tang Dynasty is also called ancient style. There are differences between ancient poetry and modern poetry in syntax, rhyme and level tone: syntax: the number of words in each sentence of ancient poetry is uncertain, including four, five, six, seven and even miscellaneous words (uneven sentences), and the number of sentences in each song is also uncertain, ranging from two to dozens and hundreds. There are only five words and seven sentences in modern poetry, eight in metrical poetry, four in quatrains and more than eight in quatrains, which is also called long-style poetry. Rhyme: each song in ancient style can use one rhyme, or two or more rhymes, and it is allowed to change rhymes; Each song can only use one rhyme, and even the arrangement of dozens of sentences cannot be changed. Antique can rhyme in even sentences, or even sentences can rhyme in odd sentences. The near aspect rhymes only in even sentences, except for the first sentence, which rhymes with a flat voice and does not rhyme. Five words don't gamble more, seven words gamble more), and the rest of the odd sentences don't rhyme; Antique can rhyme smoothly; Generally, only flat rhyme is used in the near body. Smoothness: The biggest difference between ancient and modern styles is that ancient styles don't talk about flatness, while modern styles pay attention to flatness. After the Tang dynasty, the ancient style was also flat, but irregular. In fact, beginners may overlook some details. Before the Tang Dynasty, there were quatrains in units of four sentences, or "quatrains in ancient style", and there were writers in the Tang Dynasty, which was different from quatrains in modern style and was also a kind of quatrains in ancient style.