The word is divided into two parts: the upper part and the lower part, also known as the upper part and the lower part.
Ci originated from the Five Dynasties and the Tang Dynasty, and was a literary genre popular in the Song Dynasty.
Style name, a verse form of poetry, developed from five-character poems, seven-character poems or folk songs.
It began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. It was originally a poetry style sung with music. The length of the sentence changes with the tune of the song.
So it is also called long and short sentences. There are two types: Xiaoling and slow Ci, which are generally divided into upper and lower columns.
Types of Ci
Ci were originally called "quci" or "quci" and were set to music. From the perspective of accompanying music, it is the same literary genre as Yuefu, and it also comes from folk literature. Later, like Yuefu, Ci gradually separated from music and became a different style of poetry, so some people called Ci "the rest of poetry". The literati's poetry was deeply influenced by rhythmic poetry, so there are many rhythmic sentences in the poetry.
The words are long and short sentences, but the number of words in the whole article is certain. The tone of each sentence is also certain.
Words can be roughly divided into three categories: ⑴ Xiaoling; ⑵ Middle tone; ⑶ Long tone. Some people think that within fifty-eight characters are Xiaoling, from fifty-nine to ninety-nine characters are middle tune, and beyond ninety-one characters are long tune①. Although this classification is too absolute, the general situation is still like this.
There are already some middle tones and long tones in the Dunhuang music lyrics. Liu Yong wrote some long tunes in the early Song Dynasty. Su Shi, Qin Guan, Huang Tingjian and others followed, and long tune became popular. The characteristic of long tunes, in addition to the larger number of words, is that the rhyme is generally sparse.