What are the eight ancient literary styles?

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Poetry in ancient style

Classical poetry is a genre of ancient Chinese poetry. It's also called antique. In terms of the number of words in poems, there are so-called four-character poems, five-character poems and seven-character poems. Four words are four words, five words are five words and seven words are seven words. After the Tang Dynasty, there were few four-character poems, so they were usually divided into five-character poems and seven-character poems. Five-character ancient poems are referred to as five ancient poems for short; Seven-character ancient poems are referred to as seven ancient poems for short, and those who use three, five and seven characters at the same time are generally considered as seven ancient poems.

2.

Lvshi

Rhyme is a popular genre in Chinese poetry in Tang Dynasty, which belongs to modern poetry and is named because of its strict metrical requirements. The common types are five laws and seven laws, and there are generally a few words to say. Rhyme is the precious wealth of Chinese literature, which is of great significance.

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Quatrain

Quatrains, also called truncated sentences, broken sentences and quatrains, are short and pithy. It is a popular genre of Chinese poetry in the Tang Dynasty and belongs to a form of modern poetry. The word quatrains first appeared in the Qi and Liang Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties. There are four five-character and four-sentence poems in Chen's Poem on Yutai. I don't know the author's name, and the topic is "Ancient Jueju". At this time, quatrains refer to small poems with five words, four sentences and two rhymes, and do not require balance and harmony. Jue means "cut off", and the ancients used four poems with four quatrains to complete an ideological concept. There are two types of quatrains: quatrains and archaic styles. Rhythm only needs to be refined after the rise of rhythmic poetry. Ancient times existed long before the appearance of metrical poems.

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The Songs of Chu

During the Warring States Period, Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu, created a new poetry genre-Chu Ci-in Chu language on the basis of southern folk songs. Qu Yuan's lyric poem Li Sao has a romantic style and is a masterpiece of Chu Ci, so Chu Ci is also called Li Sao Style.

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Singing style

Gexing is one of the genres of ancient Chinese poetry, which was established on the basis of Yuefu poetry in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties in the early Tang Dynasty. It was created by Bao Zhao in the Southern Dynasties and the Song Dynasty. Bao Zhao imitates learning Yuefu. After full digestion, absorption and casting, he not only acquired his own style, but also developed seven-character poems and created a seven-character style.

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Fu is a kind of metrical style in ancient China, which is between poetry and prose, similar to prose poetry in later generations. It emphasizes literary talent and rhythm and has the nature of poetry and prose. It is characterized by "eulogizing prose and writing ambition in kind", focusing on writing scenery and expressing emotion through scenery. It first appeared in hundred schools of thought's essays and was called "short fu"; Qu Yuan's "Sao Style" is a transition from poetry to fu, which is called "Sao Fu". The style of Fu was formally established in the Han Dynasty, which is called "Ci Fu". After Wei and Jin Dynasties, it developed in the direction of parallel prose, which was called "parallel prose". In the Tang dynasty, it changed from parallel style to regular style, which was called "law fu"; In Song Dynasty, Fu appeared in the form of prose, which was called "Wen Fu".

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parallel prose (prose written in the parallel style)

Parallel prose is also called parallel prose, parallel prose or parallel prose; The writing style of ancient people in China was written in pairs. Because it is commonly used in four words and six sentences, it is also called "Liu Siwen" or "Parallel Four Wives and Six". The whole article is mainly composed of two sentences (even sentences, even sentences), paying attention to the neatness of the antithesis and the loud melody.

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word

Ci is a unique poetic style, which sprouted in the Southern Dynasties and is a new literary style in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, after a long period of continuous development, Ci entered its heyday. The original name of the word is "Quci" or "Quci", and it is also called: near-style Yuefu, long and short sentences, Quci, music movement, fun, idle poems and so on. It is a song and poem full of feasts, and the epigraph is the name of the tone of the word. Different epigrams have regulations on the total number of words, the number of sentences, the number of words per sentence and the level.