Classical poetry, a genre of China's ancient poetry, also known as classical poetry or archaism, refers to a poetic genre that originated before the Tang Dynasty and was opposite to the modern poetry that appeared in the Tang Dynasty.
Ancient poetry is a unique style of Chinese, with special format and rhythm. Poetry can be divided into classical poetry and modern poetry according to rhythm.
2. Different schools:
As a poetry genre, archaic poetry refers to ancient poetry as opposed to modern poetry, also known as archaic poetry. There are all kinds of poems before the formation of Tang law, as well as poems written in ancient Chinese after Tang dynasty.
Classical poetry, also known as archaism, is written according to the practice of classical poetry, and its form is relatively free, and it is not bound by metrical rules. Judging from the number of words in poetry, there are 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; The use of three, five and seven characters at the same time is generally considered as seven ancient characters.
3. Different expression skills:
According to the perspective of expression, ancient poetry can be divided into content expression and structure expression. The expressive techniques of the content include lyric techniques, descriptive techniques and rhetorical techniques in the order from large to small.
There are many ways to express ancient poems, which were first popular in China, and the traditional way to express them is "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."