Song Ci is a popular literary genre in China in the Song Dynasty, and it is a new style poem compared with classical poetry, which marks the highest achievement of Song literature. Song ci has long and short sentences, which are easy to sing. Because it is the lyrics of music and harmony, it is also called tune, Yuefu, music movement, long and short sentences, poetry, piano music and so on.

It began in Nanliang, formed in Tang Dynasty and flourished in Song Dynasty. Song Ci is a bright pearl in the crown of China ancient literature, and a fragrant and gorgeous garden in Yuen Long, an ancient literature in China. With colorful and varied charm, she competes with Tang poetry and Yuanqu, and has always been said to be as famous as Tang poetry, representing the prosperity of a generation of literature. Later, there was a book with the same name, Song Ci.

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Words have epigrams, that is, tunes Some intonations have different "styles" because of different words or sentence patterns. There are about 100 commonly used aphorisms, such as mink head, Niannujiao, dreaming, etc. The structure of a word is divided into blocks or pieces, which are monotonous, two are disyllabic, and three are called triple. According to different music, there are differences in order, quotation, approach and slowness.

"Ling" is generally short, and the words used by early literati are mostly filled in poems. For example, the sixteen-character order, the dream order, and the child's play order. "Yin" and "gold" are generally long, such as Jiang Mei Yin, Yangguan Yin, Zhu Yingtai Gold, Zhongqing Qingjin and so on. And "slow" is longer than "introduction" and "proximity", which prevailed after the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, and there is a saying that Liu Yong "began to preach slowly".

Epigraph such as Magnolia Slow, Lin Yuling Slow, etc. According to the number of words, there are also "Xiao Ling", "alto" and "long tune". According to Mao's Ci Xie in Qing Dynasty, words below 58 are small notes, words between 59 and 90 are medium notes, and words below 90 are long notes. The longest intonation, Preface to Birds, has 240 words.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Song Ci (China Literature)