What are the five-character poems?

There are many kinds of ancient poems, including five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains, pastoral poems, frontier poems and landscape poems. Every poet has his own style and specialty. Today, let's take a look at some ancient poems with five-character quatrains!

What is a five-character quatrain?

A five-character quatrain refers to a small poem with five words and four sentences, which conforms to the norms of metrical poetry. One poem with four sentences and one sentence with five words is a genre of Chinese traditional poetry. Li Bai developed the Five Wonders into its heyday. The representative works of the five-character quatrains include Thinking of a Quiet Night, Loving in a Heron's Lodge, Xiao Chun, etc.

classical poem with four five-character lines

1, at the heron hotel

Don Wang Zhihuan

The sun sets slowly near the western hills, and the Yellow River flows into the East China Sea.

By going up one flight of stairs, look further.

2. "Look"

Qingyuanmei

Cowboys ride on the backs of oxen, and songs echo in the forest.

Suddenly want to catch the song of the tree, immediately stop singing and stand by the tree silently.

3. Gum Arabic

Don

Red bean shrubs grow in the south and produce many branches in spring.

People who want to miss them collect more, and Mix red beans have attracted people's attention.

4. Jiang Xue

Liutang Zongyuan

There are no birds flying over those mountains, and there are no traces of people in those paths.

A boat on the river, a fisherman wearing his webworm moth; Fishing alone is not afraid of snow and ice.