Classical Chinese is a written form based on the elegant spoken language of ancient Chinese. In ancient times, there was little difference between classical Chinese and ordinary spoken English.
Poetry is a unique style in Chinese with a special format and rhythm. Poetry can be divided into classical poetry and modern poetry according to rhythm. Classical poetry and modern poetry are concepts formed in the Tang Dynasty, which are divided from the perspective of poetic rhythm.
2, the scope is different:
Classical Chinese is characterized by paying attention to the use of allusions, parallel prose and neat rhythm, including strategy, poetry, words, songs, stereotyped writing and parallel prose.
Classical poetry is a kind of classical Chinese, including the Book of Songs, Chuci, Yuefu, Han Fu, folk songs in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and so on. Modern poetry is generally quatrains, metrical poems and parallel poems (long laws).
3. Different characteristics:
The characteristic of ancient poetry is that it has strict requirements for the flat format of metrical poetry. There are many other expressions, which were first popular in China, and the traditional expressions that are often used so far are "Fu, Bi and Xing". "Preface to Mao Poetry" said: "Therefore, poetry has six meanings: one is wind, the other is fu, the third is comparison, the fourth is pride, the fifth is elegance and the sixth is fu." There are also strict requirements for the flat format of metrical poems.
The characteristics of classical Chinese are: separation of speech and writing, concise writing. Compared with vernacular Chinese (including spoken and written language), the characteristics of classical Chinese are mainly manifested in grammar and vocabulary.
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