Ancient poetry is a general term for ancient China's poetry, which refers to China's poetry works before the Opium War in 184. From the metrical point of view, ancient poetry can be divided into ancient poetry and modern poetry.

taking the Tang dynasty as the boundary, all the poems in the past were ancient poems, and then the ancient poems gradually declined and died out. Ancient poetry is also called ancient poetry or ancient style; Modern poetry is also called modern poetry. From the Book of Songs to Yu Xin in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they are all ancient poems, but the poems after the Tang Dynasty are not necessarily modern poems, which are specifically based on the distinction between rhyme and meter.

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Ancient poems (ancient poems) have fixed lines and styles. 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 many forms such as four words, five words, seven words and miscellaneous words. Ancient poems after the Han and Wei Dynasties are generally based on five or seven words, with certain French rhymes and inflections.

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

Five-character ancient poetry is the orthodoxy of classical poetry, which is written by many people. Seven-character ancient poetry is not the mainstream of classical poetry, which is because it originated late. Therefore, the seven-character ancient style is greatly influenced by the seven-character modern poetry.

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