It is not an ancient poem, it is one of the literary genres. It was called "Yuefu" or "Modern Yuefu" in Yuan Dynasty. It was composed with music tunes popular in the north at that time. It is a kind of Chinese music literature that originated from folk new voices, and it was a new style poem that appealed to both refined and popular tastes at that time. There are two basic forms: small orders and sets. Qu is a literary genre of Han nationality that rises after poetry and ci. Qu can be roughly divided into two types: one is the word that enters the play, which is a drama or drama; The other is Sanqu, or "Qingqu" and "Today's Yuefu". It belongs to Chinese poetry in a broad sense, and there are three basic types: Xiao Ling and Tao Shu, and the melody between them. Sanqu has no movement and is unremarkable. It is only used for cantata and chanting. The divertimento consists of several songs, such as "A Flower Can't Live Old", which contains four songs. Xiao Ling takes a piece of music as an independent unit, such as Four Jade Articles of Love. A poem is limited to one poem. If two or three poems are combined into a unit, it is called a ribbon.
Features:
(1) Sanqu is divided into two forms: poem and divertimento.
(2) Every Sanqu has a Qupai, which belongs to a certain palace tune.
(3) Each Qupai has its own rules in terms of word number, sentence number, level tone and rhyme. Therefore, the front of each Yuan Song is crowned with the category name, Gongdiao name, Qupai name and Quti name.