Poetry can be divided into three categories according to its melody.

Can be divided into two categories, ancient poetry and modern poetry, ancient poetry can be divided into Chu ci style and Yuefu style, modern poetry can be divided into quatrains and metrical poems.

First, ancient poetry

Including ancient poems (poems before Tang Dynasty), songs of Chu and Yuefu poems. Poems with the theme of ancient poems, such as songs, lines, quotations, songs and songs, are also ancient poems. Classical poetry does not talk about antithesis and rhymes freely.

1, Chu Ci

It is a form of poetry created by Qu Yuan during the Warring States Period, which is characterized by the use of Chu dialect and Chu rhyme and has a strong Chu color.

There are seventeen volumes of Chu Ci edited by Liu Xiang in the Eastern Han Dynasty, mainly the works of Qu Yuan, and Qu Yuan's works take Li Sao as his masterpiece, so later generations also call it "Chu Ci Style" and "Sao Style".

2. Yuefu

Yuefu is a music management institution established by the imperial court since the Qin Dynasty. During the period of Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty, a large number of poems were collected from the people. Later generations collectively referred to as Han Yuefu. Later, Yuefu became a poetic genre.

Second, modern poetry.

Modern poetry, compared with classical poetry, is also called modern poetry, which is a kind of metrical poetry formed in the Tang Dynasty. There are two kinds, and there are strict rules on the number of words, sentences, level tones and rhymes.

1 quatrains

Each song consists of four sentences, five abbreviations and seven abbreviations.

Step 2 rhyme

Every eight sentences, five words are abbreviated as five laws, seven words are abbreviated as seven laws, and more than eight sentences are called exclusive laws (or long laws).

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First, introduce the representative poets of classical poetry.

1, Qu Yuan

Qu Yuan (about 340-278 BC) was a poet and politician of Chu State during the Warring States Period in China. Born in Zigui, Danyang, Chu (now Yichang, Hubei). Mi surname, Qu family, human, the word is native; Since the cloud name is regular, the spirit word is even.

Qu Yuan is the first great patriotic poet in the history of China, the founder of China's romantic literature, the founder and representative writer of Songs of the South, who initiated the tradition of "vanilla beauty" and was praised as "the ancestor of Ci Fu" and "the ancestor of China's poetry".

The appearance of Qu Yuan's works indicates that China's poetry has entered a new era from collective singing to individual originality. His main works are Li Sao, Nine Songs, Nine Chapters and Tian Wen.

Chu Ci, with Qu Yuan's works as the main body, is one of the sources of China's romantic literature, and it is also called "coquettish" with the Book of Songs, which has a far-reaching influence on later poetry.

2. Cao Cao

Cao Cao (155-March15,220? ), the word Meng De, Yi Geely, Xiao Zi A Jue, Pei County (now Bozhou, Anhui Province). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was an outstanding politician, strategist, writer and calligrapher, and the founder of the Cao Wei regime in the Three Kingdoms.

Cao Cao is proficient in the art of war militarily and attaches importance to talents and talents. Therefore, he took a fancy to his potential molecules at all costs. He is good at writing poems, expressing his political ambitions and reflecting the miserable life of the people in the late Han Dynasty. He is magnificent, generous and sad.

Prose is also neat, which opens and prospers Jian 'an literature and leaves precious spiritual wealth to future generations. Lu Xun rated him as "the founder of reforming articles".

Secondly, introduce the representative poets of modern poetry.

1, Du Fu

Du Fu (7 12-770), with beautiful words, is a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty, and is also called "Du Li" with Li Bai. Originally from Xiangyang, Hubei Province, he moved to Gongxian County, Henan Province.

Du Fu's influence on China's classical poetry is far-reaching, and he is called "the sage of poetry" by later generations, and his poems are called "the history of poetry". Later generations called him Du Shiyi and Du Gongbu, and also called him Du Shaoling and Du Caotang.

2. Li Shangyin

Li Shangyin (about 8 13-858), a native of western Henan (xi), Fan Nansheng, a native of Xingyang, Zhengzhou (now Xingyang, Zhengzhou, Henan), was a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty.

Li Shangyin was one of the few poets who deliberately pursued the beauty of poetry in the late Tang Dynasty and even the whole Tang Dynasty. He is good at poetry writing, and parallel prose also has high literary value. His poems are novel in conception and beautiful in style, especially some love poems and untitled poems are touching, beautiful and moving, and are widely read.

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