Chapter 151 ancient

If the poems with five characters and four sentences and seven characters and four sentences are called quatrains, then this genre has existed for a long time, but before the Tang Dynasty, there were no metrical requirements such as rhyme and equality.After the Tang Dynasty, there were very strict requirements for quatrains, but when we read Tang poetry, we will find many quatrains that are not legal.These quatrains that do not conform to the law are by no means those poets who do not understand the meter, because many of them appear in the poems of Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Bai Juyi and other great poets, but they are intentional.There are quite a few of this kind of poems in Tang poetry, and they have also been recognized by later generations. For example, Tang poetry anthologies of later generations, such as "Tang Poetry Bie Cai" by Shen Deqian of the Qing Dynasty, all select these poems into the category of quatrains.

These quatrains that do not conform to the poetic rhythm of the Tang Dynasty are called "variant poems" by some, and "ancient quatrains" by others.To sum up, there are mainly two situations. First, it does not fully follow the level requirements.For example, Li Bai's "Quiet Night Thoughts":