2. The forms of Tang poetry are rich and colorful, which can be divided into ancient poetry and modern poetry. The ancient poetry has five words and seven words.
3. Modern poetry can be divided into metrical poetry and quatrains. Therefore, the basic forms of Tang poetry include five-character classical poems, seven-character classical poems, five-character regular poems, seven-character regular poems, five-character quatrains and seven-character quatrains.
4. The style of classical poetry is handed down from the previous generation, so it is also called archaism. Before the Tang Dynasty, this style of poetry had no specific name. After the rise of regular poetry in the Tang Dynasty, people called regular poetry "modern poetry", while those poems that failed to meet the requirements of the law were called ancient poetry. Modern poetry is also called metrical poetry because it has strict metrical requirements. Relatively speaking, the requirements of ancient poetry in terms of rhyme and meter are relatively loose, while those of modern poetry in terms of rhyme and meter are relatively strict. For example, the number of sentences in a poem is fixed, that is, there are eight rhymes and four quatrains; The words used in each poem also follow certain rules, and the rhyme cannot be changed at will; Rhyme also requires that the forehead couplet and the neck couplet become opposites.
5. Poets in the Tang Dynasty created a wide range of poems, ranging from natural phenomena to political dynamics, from working life to social customs. Some poems reflect the social situation and class contradictions at that time, thus exposing the dark corruption of feudal society; Some poems praise the just war and express the poet's patriotic feelings; Some poems depict the beautiful and charming mountains and rivers of the motherland; In addition, some poems express the poet's ambition and experience, express the love of men and women, tell the friendship of friends, the joys and sorrows of life and so on.
6. In terms of creative methods, there are both realism and romanticism. In creation, these two creative methods are often combined to form a fine tradition of Chinese classical poetry.