What are the seven-character seven-sentence poems?

A poem has seven lines. This kind of poem is rare in history. Some poets take seven sentences as an article, such as Sima Xiangru's "Phoenix Begging for Phoenix", but it rarely appears in later generations.

1. Wuqi District-Li Bai (Tang)

Gusu lived on the stage and served drunk in the Wu Palace.

Wu Ge's Chu dance is not over yet. Castle peak is still standing for half a day.

The silver arrow and golden pot are leaking, and the autumn moon falls into the river.

The east is getting higher and higher.

Translation:

As the sun sets, the outline of the Wu Palace on the Gusu stage and the beauty in the palace are drunk.

Singing and dancing lightly, Zhu Yan fainted, and the enjoyment of the prince was still in excitement, but suddenly he found that the mountain peak in the west had swallowed up half a red sun, and dusk was approaching.

The scene between the prince of Wu and Shi also came to an end. The more the copper pot leaks, the more the scale of the silver arrow rises. An autumn moon crossed the sky, and it was almost dawn.

2. Phoenix Begs Phoenix-Sima Xiangru (Western Han Dynasty)

Feng Feng returned to his hometown, invited him to travel around the world and begged for his death.

When you don't know what to do, why not open the hall tonight?

There are beautiful ladies here, and the people in the room are poisoning my intestines.

Why do you want to be a mandarin duck?

Translation:

Phoenix bird, phoenix bird, returned to their hometown and their whereabouts are unknown. He traveled all over the world just to find the phoenix bird in his heart.

I don't know where I am until I meet a burning bird, so how can I understand my feelings after visiting today?

There is a beautiful, elegant and quiet woman in her bedroom. Although I live near, this beautiful woman is far away from me, and the feeling of missing is tormenting my heart.

How can I get this good marriage, get married, and be that loving and charming mandarin duck?

I hope I, a phoenix bird, can fly with you and a phoenix bird and roam in the sky! Burning bird, burning bird, I wish you to live with me, be inseparable, raise children and be my spouse forever.

Love is congenial, two hearts are in harmony, and they follow each other late at night. Who would know? Spread your wings and fly away, thinking of you in vain makes me sad.

3. Jiangnan-Anonymous (Han Dynasty)

Jiangnan can pick lotus, lotus leaves, and fish play between them.

Fish hits the lotus leaf east, fish hits the lotus leaf west, fish hits the lotus leaf south, and fish hits the lotus leaf north.

Translation:

Young men and women are picking lotus by the river. There are lush lotus leaves in the river, and some fish are shuttling back and forth between them.

The fish swam east, west, south and north.

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Extended data:

Seven-character ancient poetry, referred to as seven-character ancient poetry for short, is a poetic form with the most vivid form, the most diverse genre, the most free syntax and phonology, and the most expressive lyrical narrative. The whole poem consists of seven words or seven sentences.

Seven-character ancient poems are the general name of seven ancient poems and songs. For example, Li Bai's Shu Dao Nan contains three words: "alas, alas, alas" and "until the two rulers of this area squeezed in in the foggy years".

"As high as a banner, six dragons drive the sun, and the river whips the song far away" is nine words, but it is still considered to be a seven-character quatrain, not a miscellaneous poem.

Poets since Ming and Qing Dynasties have two opinions on the division of seven-character ancient poems. One is that seven-character ancient poems and seven-character songs are integrated and can replace each other. For example, Hu Yinglin's poem says, "Seven-character ancient poems are generally called songs."

Wang Shizhen's Selected Ancient Poems is divided into five-character poems and seven-character poems. In the poetry criticism of Ming and Qing dynasties, the seven ancient and seven-character songs are called each other, and the list is endless.

On the other hand, another view is that there is a difference in form between the ancient seven dynasties and Ge surname, and this difference is great.

On this issue, both Mr. Li Zhonghua and Mr. Li Hui have written. Simply put, from the formal point of view, both seven-character poems and seven-character songs are seven-character poems, and neither of them can be regarded as seven-character poems, so it seems natural that they belong to the same category with the same purpose.

However, there are obvious differences in the origin, style and style of their respective poems.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Seven-character Ancient Poetry