The second is to stipulate the number of sentences, and every eight sentences are called "law", that is, "five laws" or "seven laws"; The quatrains in each four-sentence poem are subdivided into five quatrains and seven quatrains. And more than eight sentences are called "exclusion".
Besides the basic sentence patterns, the main requirements of metrical poetry include four elements, namely, flat and even, rhyme, antithesis and adhesion. The following will be explained separately.
Flat tone
① Four tones
The concept of flat tone will involve the content of phonology. Middle Chinese can be divided into four tones: flat tone, rising tone, rising tone and entering tone. "Flat" means flat sound, and going up, going down and entering the system are all sounds.
Compared with the first, second, third and fourth tones of Putonghua today, the first and second tones are "Yin Ping" and "rising tone" respectively. Three and four are silent. There is no Rusheng in the pronunciation of Putonghua, and Rusheng words in ancient pronunciation have been integrated into today's tones, such as "one", "ten", "bi" and "color".
② Basic sentence patterns
Taking the Five Musts as an example, there are four basic sentence patterns in rhythmic poetry:
Flat and light, flat and light.
(Ping) Ping, (Ping) Ping.
Extended data
Regarding the rules of poetry, we will discuss them in detail from the following aspects: the rules of poetry, the rules of poetry. If the dialect has an entering tone, then the problem will be solved easily. In those dialects with entering tones, there are more than four tones, not only yin and yang, but also yin and yang.
Like Guangzhou Rusheng, it can be divided into three categories. It's all easy to do: just combine them, for example, combine the yin level and the yang level into a flat tone, and combine the yin-up, yang-up, yin-out, yang-out, yin-in and yang-in into a Legato.