Partridge Sky, the name of the word, also known as "thinking of a good guest" "thinking of the Vietnamese" "drunken plum blossoms" "half dead wu "Cutting the Morning Glow" and so on. Framed as Yan Guidao's "Partridge Sky - Colorful Sleeves Attentively Holding Jade Bells", this tune has fifty-five words in two tones, with four lines of three flat rhymes in the first section and five lines of three flat rhymes in the second section. Representative works include Su Shi's "Partridge Sky" and "Bamboo Hidden Wall".
Tang Zheng quality poem "spring tour chicken deer plug, home in the partridge sky", the tune name taken from this. Partridge, bird name, shaped like a hen, head like a quail, chest white dots such as pearls, back hair has purple red wave pattern. Common image of its song said "line can not also brother". This tune for the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the new sound, the beginning of the words for the Xia H竦 made. The lyrics of Liu Yong belong to the Zhengping key. This tune is only one of its kind, and there is no other form. It is used as a small order in the Northern Song Dynasty, or used in a suite of songs. The southern tune is classified as "introduction" and is mostly used at the end of legendary dramas.
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Metrical description
Fixed double-tone, with 55 characters. The first four lines are in three parallel rhymes; the second five lines are in three parallel rhymes. In the Song Dynasty, the rhyme scheme was the same. Zhao Changqing's lyrics begin with the phrase "The Lotus-root Flowers in the New Clear Water", the words "New Clear" are all in flat tone, the words "Water" are all in oblique tone, and the word "Flowers" is in flat tone. The word "flower" has a flat tone, which is completely different from this one.
The first sentence of the first part of Yan lyrics, "Waking up from a drunken stupor, the spring has been left behind", and the word "spring" has a flat tone. The second sentence of Gao Guan Guo's lyrics, "The most compassionate song of phoenix xiao yin", the word "most" and the word "one" are all in oblique tones. In the third line of Yen's poem, "Clouds follow the singing of green water", the word "clouds" is in flat tone, and the word "green" is in oblique tone. The word "cloud" is in flat tone, while the word "green" is in oblique tone.
The fourth sentence, "For whom is the moon and the smoke of sorrow? Zhao Changqing word after the first and second sentence "remember hand in hand, encounter steps", "remember" word oblique tone, "carry" word flat. Huang Tingjian word third sentence "oblique wind and fine rain do not have to return", "oblique" word level tone, "fine" word oblique tone. The fourth line of Liu Yong's poem, "Only because I have been to the former life", the word "only" is oblique, and the word "had" is flat.
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