Old house
Clouds float on the windows of old houses,
Old traces of insects on the old roof beams.
Bird's nest, frog and well,
Rattan is my youth.
Seven-character quatrain is a kind of quatrain, which is called seven-character quatrain for short, and its origin is not clear. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people thought that the Four Musts originated from Xiao Gang, Yu Shinan or the four great masters, and all of them referred to the seven-character law.
Although in its development process, the Seven Juexing was indeed dominated by the law, like the Five Juexing, the formation of the ancient Juexing still preceded the law. Modern scholars at home and abroad generally tend to regard Yuefu folk songs in the Northern Dynasties as the source of seven-character ancient poems. Some scholars also believe that the source of seven-character ancient poetry should be traced back to the folk songs of the Western Jin Dynasty.
Appreciation of seven-character quatrains:
Although there were mature seven-character quatrains like Ge Yanxing written by Cao Pi in the Han and Wei Dynasties, the earliest complete seven-character four-sentence style appeared in the ballads of the Western Jin Dynasty. This is the song of the old man in Yuzhou, which rhymes: "Fortunately, Li escaped from danger and became a loving father. Xuanjiu forgot to work hard, so why bother thinking about singing and dancing? "
In the early Tang Dynasty, the seven-character quatrains were not only few in number and narrow in subject matter, but also had little influence on the poetry circle and were not mature enough in art. Not only was the rhythm not completely coordinated, but the style was relatively sluggish (such as the first half of an antithetical poem) and lacked long rhyme. Famous poets in the early Tang Dynasty, such as Shen Quanqi and Song, were good at writing regular poems, but the level of seven-character regular poems was average.