How do modern people learn to write ancient poems?

The first step in learning ancient poetry is to master the level tone.

Don't believe the lazy excuse that "even and flat meter is the shackles of poetry creation". Flat tone is the pronunciation system of Chinese characters, which we use when we speak. Metre is a set of norms in modern poetry. You either don't learn it or you don't have to learn it. But if you don't understand the rhythm and modern poetry, you will automatically give up the appreciation of the highest literary genre in China's poetry cultural tradition and the creative source of modern poets in the past thousand years. Those who master modern poetry admire the world at the top of the mountain, while those who don't know the rules wander at the foot of the mountain and laugh at the people at the top of the mountain who are not free.

You think all you have lost is shackles and word games, but you don't know that there is no entrance at all.

Ancient poems don't talk about leveling, rhyme, which is equivalent to the classical Chinese version of modern poems. However, what is most profound in classical poetry is the simplicity of the times and Gu Zhuo. Today, we can't restore that ancient meaning, even if we pile it up with many old sayings. Because of the irreversibility of time and space and the refinement of social culture, the so-called ancient style has stripped away those dazzling old sayings, and the core is just some imaginary, flashy and self-righteous ancient costume TV sets.

But it is very difficult to train, many friends will say. Actually, it's not difficult at all. Only in this era when modern poetry is out of date, no one is willing to bother to study it. It's much simpler than English and Olympics, but in the era of pragmatism, it's better to say lazy than difficult. They are all phonological systems of Chinese characters. We are all talking today. How hard can it be to observe them unconsciously?

How can I learn to write ancient poems?

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There are many articles in front about the research and derivation of the lines of flat and even poems in modern poetry, including quatrains, metrical poems and arrangement rules. If you are interested, you can basically get started. Not much to say here.

The second step is to read a lot to improve the ability to appreciate ancient poetry.

Good taste is a combination of skill and artistic conception. Appreciation ability comes from reading a lot and understanding the development and changes of ancient poetry. You know the Book of Songs and Songs of the South. Do you know Bai Liang School, Yong Ming School, Qi Liang School, Late Tang School, Quincy School and Si Ling Poetry School? Why don't these poetic schools produce good poems? Because these poems are related to the social atmosphere at that time, they are decadent and enchanting works that appeared when a dynasty declined. Although the rhetoric is gorgeous and the allusions are difficult, there is no high-spirited atmosphere of the times, nor does it play a role in recording social development and changes.

"Articles are timely", and so is poetry. When you have a correct understanding of the development history of poetry, you will fundamentally understand the ups and downs and evolution of ancient poetry, find out which poets of which era you can learn from in writing style, and find your own position.

Another way to improve the ability of appreciation is to improve the writing skills of ancient poetry. That is to say, the knowledge of leveling, rhyming and antithesis mentioned above, as well as the study and improvement of rhyme transfer, overall planning of writing and clever conception of ancient poetry. Only when you master these skills and methods skillfully, when you read the poems of the ancients, will you suddenly realize that it is so exquisite here.