The origin of seven-character quatrains probably lies in "Chu Ci", because most of "Chu Ci" are seven-character sentences.
Ci is a type of rhyme. Although there is often a word "xi" in it, we only need to transform it into other words, so it is a seven-character poem. Please read Qu Yuan's "Li Sao": I am still kind in my heart, even though I died nine times, I still have no regrets.
There are zhi in the garden and orchids in the river. I miss the young master but dare not speak. ?......
Many of the ballads in the early Han Dynasty were composed of seven characters. For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che's "Autumn Wind Ci": The autumn wind blows and white clouds fly, and the grass and trees turn yellow? Return to the south.
The orchids are beautiful and the chrysanthemums are yellow. I cannot forget the beautiful woman I am pregnant with. ?
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With the passage of time and the needs of society, ballads evolved into the ballads of the Six Dynasties, especially those of Qi and Liang Most of his Yuefu poems are in seven words.
In the Tang Dynasty, this kind of seven-character poem was combined with the conditions of rhythm, so the quatrain poems were established as modern poetry. At the same time, the Tang music all used the quatrains of the poets at that time, because they could be sung with string instruments, and the previous Yuefu Poetry cannot be played with musical instruments.
As a result, the seven-character quatrain became very popular in the music studios of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. The society and emotions at that time were regarded as the essence of Tang poetry.
In terms of form, it is the same as the five-character quatrain. They are also divided into "three patterns": 1. Law. 2. Ancient. 3. Awkward.
Lüjue is the same as the Five Rules, and the addition of two couplets makes it the Seven Rules. Gu Jue is the same as Qi Gu Ping and Ze, and the rhyme of Ping and Ze is the same.
As for the question, that’s it for now. Please correct me if you are a poetry lover. Attached is the representative work of seven-character quatrains, Li Bai’s "Yellow Crane Tower Farewell to Meng Haoran in Guangling": An old friend's farewell to the Yellow Crane Tower in the west under the fireworks in March. Yangzhou.
The solitary sail is far away in the blue sky, only the Yangtze River can be seen flowing in the sky. ?
The seven-character quatrain entered its heyday in the Tang Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, there were more and more seven-character quatrains. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the number of seven-character quatrains increased several times.
The main reason why Qijue is becoming more and more popular is that Qijue was used by the Tang people as a Yuefu song, similar to today's popular songs. Wang Shizhen said in "Selected Preface of Ten Thousand Quatrains of the Tang Dynasty":
The Kaiyuan and Tianbao have arrived. It was passed down by Gongye, sung by the disciples of Liyuan, sung by Qiting and advanced by the generals, leading the celebrities of the time. What you do is a quatrain. Therefore, Wang Zhihuan's "Yellow River is far up" and Wang Changling's "Shaoyang Sun Shadow" are still praised today.