Poetry Metre New Form Symbols

Author: Shi Wende
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Poetry and Ci are the jade of Chinese literature and one of the symbols of Chinese culture. As Chinese poetry and Ci have evolved over history, their content has become vast and diverse, with rich and profound meanings. Countless poetic works have been created throughout Chinese history, with generations of renowned poets. Before the Tang Dynasty, only classical poetry originated from the Shang and Zhou dynasties existed. During the Tang Dynasty, regulated verse (jintishu) began to take shape, with strict rules. Based on the rules of poetry, the rules of Ci became even more intricate. Tang poetry and Song Ci not only reached the pinnacle of content in poetry and Ci but also became the model in terms of rules. This book briefly explains the types and elements of poetry and Ci, and elaborates in detail on the basic and variant forms of rules, providing a reference for readers when learning to write poetry and compose Ci. It should be noted that many conditions are required to write poetry and compose Ci: cultivation in traditional Chinese culture, a theoretical foundation in literature, an understanding of society, human affairs, and historical events, personal experiences, and skills in language and writing. Mastery of rules is just one of them. This book primarily discusses the rules of poetry and Ci, with a focus on the formal description of rules. The author employs a successful formal symbolic theory developed through his research, systematically and essentially portraying the inherent formal laws of poetry and Ci. This book is a unique work on the theoretical rules of classical Chinese poetry and Ci, as well as a popular guide for readers to write poetry and compose Ci according to rules. To facilitate the memorization of poetic rules, the author, following Wang Li's Poetic Rules of Chinese Language, adopts a newly created formal symbolic system to describe the rules. The author possesses profound philosophical knowledge. He began studying poetic rules in 1972 and established this formal symbolic system, inspired by his philosophical understanding of poetic rules. Over the past 27 years, he has continuously refined his ideas and formalized various poetic rules. This book has a solid academic foundation, and the new formal symbolic system systematically reveals the essence of poetic rules, serving as a learning and reference resource for researchers and enthusiasts of poetic rules. At the same time, the author provides a step-by-step introduction to the basic knowledge of rules, accompanied by numerous examples of poetry and Ci when explaining the formal symbols. The explanations are clear and easy to understand, making it accessible for beginners to learn and imitate. The examples of poetry and Ci used in the book are mostly selected from famous works of the Tang and Song dynasties. While learning to write poetry and compose Ci according to rules, readers can also enhance their cultivation in the art of poetry and Ci. At the end of the book, there are appendices on the essentials of poetic rhyme, the essentials of Ci rhyme, and an index of Ci forms, for practical use.