Ci is a unique poetic style, which sprouted in the Southern Dynasties and is a new literary style in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, after a long period of continuous development, Ci entered its heyday.
The sentence patterns of words are uneven, basically long and short sentences, and long and short sentences are also nicknames of words. The rules of phonology in words are particularly strict, and words should be hierarchical. The tone of each word has its own rules, which are different.
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Ci is a lyric poem, a Yuefu poem that can be sung with music, and one of the main literary forms in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Tang and Song Ci is a new stage in the development of China literature and a brilliant achievement of Tang and Song literature.
There is a historical inheritance between Tang and Song Ci poems and Yuefu poems of the previous generation, but there are significant differences in content, form, style and expression techniques. It is not directly produced and developed from the previous Yuefu poems.
It was a new kind of poetry at that time, which maintained its own characteristics in all aspects of the development process and formed its own independent tradition. Musically, it belongs to a different system from the previous Yuefu poems.