Ci is a unique poetic style, which sprouted in the Southern Dynasties and is a new literary style in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, after a long period of continuous development, Ci entered its heyday. Ci is a song and poem full of pleasure, and the epigraph is the name of the tone of Ci. Different epigrams have regulations on the total number of words, the number of words in each sentence and the level of each sentence.
Ci originated in Nanliang, formed in the Tang Dynasty, and reached its peak in the Song Dynasty after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The formal characteristics of words are "the tone has a fixed frame and the sentence has flaws."
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Qu Zi is one of the early names of words. During the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, a kind of tune was popular in China. This kind of music can be sung with lyrics, and the lyrics filled in are called lyrics. The characteristic of Quzi Ci is to write lyrics with songs, first with tunes, and then with their tunes. Qu Zi Ci originated from the people.
Poetry, another name for words in poetry, is called "poetry" because words developed from poetry and are regarded as a style of poetry. After the Southern Song Dynasty, scholars called it Ci. Lyrics require elegance and purity, avoiding flowery words, graceful content and vulgar style, and using poetry to clean up elegant language and style, so it is called poetry. Others think that "after poetry" refers to "the leisure of poets".
After the Song Dynasty, it can be said that long and short sentences are aliases of words, but in the Northern Song Dynasty, long and short sentences are the real names of words. In the Tang Dynasty, long and short sentences were still a poetic noun.
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