China literature started from myths and legends and lasted for thousands of years. The literary works produced and the literary forms used in each period faithfully reflected the social situation at that time and embodied the literary trend of thought and style at that time. The emergence, development, maturity and decline of metrical poems also reflect this law without exception.
Poetry has existed for a long time. It was first seen in The Book of Songs. It is mainly composed of four words and six words. Generally, it rhymes, but also rhymes. Later, the form of poetry changed, and there were five-character and seven-character sentences. The number of words in each sentence changes with obvious rhythm, such as one, three, five, two, four and six distinct and even. Poetry in this period has reached a new height in content and form, and the art of poetry tends to mature, which is a sign of the maturity of metrical poetry. Scholars should pay attention to these formats when writing metrical poems. It is really not easy to write folk metrical poems well and pass them down. We have seen the maturity of poetry creation, resulting in the perfect combination of ideological content and artistic form, which is very good and has reached the point of being praised by the world. However, metrical poems are mostly limited to official career. The mutual singing of literati. Folk can't share the artistic beauty of poetry, which in itself limits the development of poetry. Metric poetry tends to be dignified and inflexible, and this period is the prosperous period of China's poetry-the Tang Dynasty.
Undeniably, the maturity and prosperity of Tang poetry has its own inevitable factors. For example, the prosperity of national strength and the development of culture. A peak in the development history of metrical poetry.
However, looking back, the development of poetry in the late Tang Dynasty and after the Tang Dynasty has undergone new changes. People always feel that a few words can't fully and properly express their thoughts and feelings, or the form of metrical poems is too old-fashioned, so the active ideological content breaks through the limitation of metrical poems and tends to be more free, with the number of words in each sentence ranging from three to five, seven to six. The number of words is flexible and changeable, depending on the content needs, and the phenomenon of rhyme is more common, becoming long and short sentences-words.
After the Tang and Five Dynasties, the literary form of Ci developed rapidly and matured, with diverse styles and schools, and finally reached the peak of the development of Ci in the Song Dynasty, just like a hundred flowers blooming. The development of ci is not to abandon metrical poems, but to create metrical poems, and there will be no more prosperity in the Tang Dynasty. Why? This is also the need of social development and the inherent law of literary development. After that, I continued to write metrical poems of various times, and there were many famous works in them, but the overall achievement was not as good as that of the Tang Dynasty. Truth or the content of literary works determines the form, and form serves the content. If a literary form cannot express its content more appropriately, it will change, become closer to life and be more suitable for expressing its content, otherwise it will be harmful to its meaning and will be eliminated.
In the same way, metrical poetry should also develop and change, develop in change, standardize and improve in development, and thus move towards new maturity.
After the May 4th Movement, with the emergence of new thoughts, new poetry came into being, and its freedom, flexibility and pursuit of images or symbols showed its vitality more and more. Although there were many metrical poems in this period, their achievements were mediocre, including words, which were inconvenient to spread and rigid, and lost the vitality of development and innovation. When writing metrical poems, we must pay attention to its composition and smoothness. Lyrics also need to work hard, and we must pay attention to fixed formats, such as words, sentences and paragraphs, which is undoubtedly a constraint on the development of metrical poems and words. Of course, objectively, it makes room for the creation of new poetry, but it is time for a new breakthrough in the form of metrical poetry and ci.
For any literary form, as long as it is suitable for its content and the needs of expressing thoughts and feelings, new attempts can be made in form, just as five words and seven words replace four words and six words, and long and short sentences flourish when metrical poetry declines. Today, we can try to promote metrical poems and metrical words in form and realize the perfect combination of new art forms and ideological content. As long as it is catchy to read, easy to remember and easy to recite, a few refined poems contain rich contents, and we don't imitate leveling. Rhyme only rhymes with four or six, not with two or four or six. The development of writing should be more free and changeable, and the old rules of epigraph should be diluted. Specifically, each article is divided into several paragraphs, and each paragraph is divided into several words. The number of words in each sentence depends entirely on the content. In this way, the old rules of metrical poetry writing will be relaxed, the ideological content will be expressed more conveniently and fully, and there will be no harm to the meaning of writing.