The main characteristics of Yongming style are its emphasis on rhythm and duality.
Yongming style is a poetic style that emerged during the Yongming period of Emperor Wu of Qi in the Southern Dynasty of China.
Yongming is the reign title of Emperor Wu of Qi in the Southern Dynasty. "Yongming style" is also called "new style poetry". This style of poetry requires strict four tones and eight diseases, and emphasizes rhyme and rhythm. The emergence of this poetic style played a certain role in correcting the problem that the language of literati poems since the Jin and Song Dynasties was too difficult, and turned the creation towards freshness and smoothness. It had a significant influence on the formation of "modern poetry".
Zhou Yong, a phonology expert at that time, discovered and founded the theory of four tones in making rhyme based on the level of flatness. Shen Yue and others studied the coordination of tones, rhymes, and tones of poetry based on four tones and double-tone overlapping rhymes. It is said that eight diseases (flat head, upper tail, wasp's waist, crane's knee, big rhyme, small rhyme, Zheng Niu, and side Niu) must be avoided. Yongming style is characterized by paying attention to the four tones, avoiding the eight diseases, and emphasizing the rhyme and rhythm of the tones.
Eight writers under Xiao Ziliang, King Jingling of Qi in the Southern Dynasty: Xie Tiao, Shen Yue, Wang Rong, Xiao Yan, Xiao Chen, Fan Yun, Ren Fang, and Lu Jue (collectively known as the Eight Friends of Jingling ), are all writers of Yongming style poetry. Its representatives have always been considered to be Xie Tiao, Shen Yue and Wang Rong.
In more than 100 years from Qi Yongming to Liang Chen, more than 90 people, including Wu Jun, He Xun, Yin Keng, Xu Ling, Yu Xin and others, made useful attempts at new style poetry. , thus laying the foundation for the emergence and development of metrical poetry in the Tang Dynasty.
According to historical records, there were at least four relatively large literary groups in the Yongming Dynasty, in order: the Weijun General Wang Jian Group, the Jingling King Xiao Ziliang Group, the Yuzhang King Xiaoxin Group, and the Sui Wang Xiao Zilong Group. group. Among them, the Xiao Ziliang Group has existed the longest, has the largest number of people, is the largest, and has the greatest influence. The vast majority of "Yongming style" poets come from this group.
The main characteristics of Yongming style:
1. It pays attention to rhythm and uses rhyme very carefully. Its main performance is that most people rhyme with flat tones, and the original rhyme is very strict. As for the common rhyme, , many are close to the Tang people.
2. The length of poems has been greatly shortened, and the sentence patterns have gradually become stereotyped. Most of them are five-character four sentences, five-character eight sentences, and some are five-character ten sentences.
3. Pay attention to writing skills, pay attention to parallelism and antithesis. A large number of rhymed sentences have appeared, and some allusions are naturally integrated into the poem.
4. Get rid of the heavy and rigid style of Yuan Jia style poetry in the Liu and Song Dynasties, and pursue the organic integration of the flowing, beautiful, easy-to-understand poetic style and the lyrical description of scenes.
5. Pay attention to the integrity of the beginning and end of the poem, the ingenuity of the conception, and the pursuit of the artistic conception of the poem.