This essay discusses issues surrounding classical Chinese poetry and great Chinese poets. Most of the Chinese people believe the greatest poets lived during the Tang, Song, and Han eras. Examples of great Chinese poets are Dufu and Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty, and Su Shi of the Song Dynasty. Back then, the themes of Tang poetry included love, romance, and nature. Classical Chinese poetry is one of the most interesting genres. It is relatively simple on the surface, unlike most kinds of poems from the West. Chinese poems also tend to focus on imagery, courtship, and marriage, or dynastic concerns. Most Chinese poems also have lines with four syllables with rhymed endings.
classical Chinese poetry and great Chinese poets
GREAT CHINESE POETS AND THE KINDS OF POEMS
There are five main kinds of poems, according to Chinese culture. These include the Shi 詩, – rhyming couplets with many tones, Ci 詞 – poems that have patterns of syllables and tonal patterns, Ge 歌, – words to a song that can be sung, Qu 曲- freer form operatic drama of the Yuan Dynasty that imitated Chinese shadow play theaters, and the Fu 賦- descriptive poems that contain both prose and couplets. Great Chinese poets found perfect intonations and rhythms lost in the old Mandarin. Dufu liked to write in a structured and regulated form of poetry named Lu Shi 律詩. Li Bai wrote in a free form of classical Chinese poetry called Gu Shi (古詩).
great Chinese poets and the kinds of poems
HISTORY OF CLASSICAL CHINESE POETRY
The earliest kinds of poems from China revolved around issues of tradition and performed in the form of repetitive folk songs. The first record of Chinese poetry comes from around the 7th century BCE in a book called the Shi Jing. Classical Chinese poetry came in the classical period of poetry, which lasted until the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 CE. During this time, the Chu-style lyrical poems evolved into Fu poetry. Fu poems were descriptive, analytical, and written in impersonal tones. Few great Chinese poets associated with Fu poetry that evolved into Yue Fu- displayed a higher level of direct government involvement in recording folk songs.
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