Five-character rhythmic poetry is one of the most important forms of ancient Chinese rhyming poetry. The basic form is eight lines with four pairs of rhymes and each line has five characters. Long rhyming poems with six, eight or even more rhymes are also part of five-character rhythmic poetry. Five-character rhythmic poetry must meet both metrical …

A poet will be able to produce a quality poem only when he is in a difficult and perilous environment, feeling suffocated with pent-up anger and frustration. The word qiong (穷 difficulty) does not mean the physical deprivation of material means but refers more broadly to adverse situations in life. Gong (工 quality) means artistically refined and b…

Here, bi (比) means to arrange and combine something in a certain way, and yue(乐) means to express through music. As a noun in its broad sense, yue refers to both the arrangement of sounds and the dance that accompanies the music. When a person experiences changes of feeling, triggered by external encounter, he will naturally make a variety of soun…

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