What do you mean by "Five Ancient"?

Gu Wu is a genre of China's ancient poetry, and it is also one of the commonly used genres before the Tang Dynasty.

The sentences of the ancient five dynasties were uneven in length. A five-character poem is called a five-character ancient poem, and a seven-character poem is called a seven-character ancient poem.

The development of ancient Five Dynasties originated from Yuefu folk songs in Han Dynasty. In the process of development, it constantly absorbed the advantages of miscellaneous words, Sao style, seven-character, meter and aria, which were popular at that time, and made the system of seven-character ancient poetry develop greatly. There were two kinds of sentence patterns in the ancient Five Dynasties: the definite sentence was usually five words, and the seven words were mostly long and short sentences.

The representatives of the ancient Five Dynasties were mainly Cao Cao, Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun and Li Bai. Among them, Cao Cao's "Short Songs" is one of the representative works of the five ancient dynasties. The poem expresses the desire for talents, and shows the poet's attention and desire for talents.

Tao Yuanming's drinking poems and Xie Lingyun's imitation poems are both classics in the five dynasties, which reflect the poet's personality and emotion. Li Bai's Thoughts on a Quiet Night is also one of the masterpieces of the Five Dynasties. This poem expresses the poet's longing for his hometown by depicting the scenery in the moonlight.

The ancient style of the Five Dynasties declined gradually after the Tang Dynasty, but it played an important role in the history of ancient poetry development. It is not only an important part of ancient poetry, but also an important part of China traditional culture. Ancient Five Dynasties had rich cultural connotation and ideological essence, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The rhythm of the ancient Five Dynasties also has unique artistic characteristics, with concise language, profound implication and profound artistic conception, which has high artistic and cultural value.

The origin and history of the five ancient dynasties;

The origin of the ancient Five Dynasties can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. It is a form of ancient poetry with the characteristics of rigorous rhythm, neat sentence pattern and elegant style. In the Han Dynasty, these five ancient poems were mainly used to express the author's emotions, thoughts, feelings and life experiences.

There is no exact time and place for the origin of the history of the Five Dynasties, but it is certain that in the Han Dynasty, the history of the Five Dynasties has become one of the more popular forms of poetry. During this period, the development of the Five Dynasties was concerned and studied by many scholars such as Zheng Xuan, Ban Gu and Jia Dao.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Five Dynasties got further development and prosperity. During this period, there appeared many outstanding five ancient poets, such as Cao Zhi, Tao Yuanming and Xie Lingyun. Their works have profound emotional and ideological connotations and unique views on nature and life.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Five Classics reached its peak. During this period, there were not only a large number of works of the Five Classics, but also a wide range of themes and forms. Li Bai's Thoughts on a Quiet Night, Du Fu's Ascending the Mountain and Wang Wei's Two Ambassadors Anxi are all representative works of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. These works not only have high artistic value, but also provide important information for us to understand the society and culture at that time.