What are ancient poems?

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. Its characteristic is that the metrical restrictions are not too strict.

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. With the Tang Dynasty as the boundary, the pre-Tang poems from the Book of Songs to the Southern and Northern Dynasties are all ancient poems. Since then, classical poetry has gradually declined and disappeared.

Metric features of ancient poems with extended information

Ancient poetry (ancient poetry) has a fixed poem and style. Compared with modern poetry, the metrical restrictions of ancient poetry are less. The length can be long or short, and the rhyme is more free and flexible. There are four words, five words, seven words, miscellaneous words and other forms. The ancient poems after the Han and Wei Dynasties are generally dominated by five or seven words, with certain rhyme and inflections.

All ancient poems are classified according to the number of words in the poem. Four-character ancient poems are referred to as four-character ancient poems for short; Five-character ancient poems are referred to as five-character ancient poems for short; Seven-character ancient poems are referred to as seven-character ancient poems for short. Four-character poems were adopted by people as early as the Book of Songs. But it gradually declined in the Tang Dynasty, and few people wrote it.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Ancient Poetry