Ancient Chinese poetry can be classified in different ways according to different classification standards. The following are a few common classifications and their corresponding lists:
1. By Style
- Poem style: five-character poem, seven-character poem, Ci, Qu, etc.
- Movement: classical music such as "Guangling San" and so on.
2. By Age of Creation
- Pre-Qin poetry, Qin and Han poetry, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties poetry, Tang and Song poetry, Yuan, Ming and Qing poetry, etc.
- Pre-Qin poems include The Book of Songs, Chu Ci, and Yuefu; Qin and Han poems include Nineteen Ancient Poems and Han Yuefu; Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties poems include Tao Yuanming's Collection, Wang Xie's Epitaph, and Chen Zilong's Collection; Tang and Song poems include Li Bai's Collection, Du Fu's Collection, Bai Juyi's Collection, Wang Zhihuan's Collection, Su Shi's Collection, Xin Qiji's Collection, Li Qingzhao's Collection; Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties poems include Yuan Qu, Jin Ping Mei, etc.
3. Category by subject
- landscape, idyllic, love, historical, political, philosophical, and so on.
- Pastoral poems include Ballad of Lushan Mountain, Farewell to Children in Nanling, April in the Village, Climbing High, etc. Love poems include Song of Everlasting Regret, Ode to Red Cliff, etc. Political poems include The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the mean, etc. Philosophic poems include Dream of the Red Chamber, Journey to the West, Water Margins, etc.
4. By Genre
- Tang poems, Song Ci, Yuan Qü, Ming and Qing novels, etc.
- Tang poetry included Complete Tang Poetry, Li Bai's Poetry Selection, Du Fu's Poetry Selection, Wang Zhihuan's Poetry Selection, etc. Song Ci included 300 Song Poetry, Su Shi's Poetry Selection, Xin Qiji's Poetry Selection, etc. Yuan Qu included Romance of the Western Chamber, Water Margins, etc. Ming and Qing novels included Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margins, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, etc.
There were various fiction contests in May 2018. Some were focused on specific genres like romance or mystery, while others were open to all types of fiction.
The number of people submitting fiction to magazine contests can fluctuate a lot. It depends on factors like the genre of the contest, the prize offered, and how well it's promoted.
You can start by checking writing magazines and websites. Many of them regularly announce short story contests for fiction. For example, 'Writer's Digest' often has such contests. Also, literary blogs are a good source. They might feature upcoming contests or share experiences of previous ones.
In most cases, having dialog can enhance a short story, but it's not a strict requirement. Some contests might prioritize other elements like plot or character development.
Ancient poetry and modern poetry are both literary forms with different characteristics and development processes.
Ancient poetry originated from China. After a long period of evolution and development, it formed a variety of different poetry styles, such as Tang poetry, Song poetry, Yuan poetry, etc. Ancient poems were usually beautiful in language, harmonious in rhythm, profound in thought, and far-reaching in artistic conception. They often expressed the author's feelings and values by describing the natural landscape, expressing feelings, and expressing the thoughts of the characters.
Modern poetry originated in the early 20th century, after the New Culture Movement, the May 4th Movement and other periods of development and change, the form and style of modern poetry was formed. Modern poetry was featured by concise language, freedom of form, and creativity, focusing on expressing the author's feelings and thoughts. Modern poetry usually uses poetic forms such as modernism, post-modernism, symbolism, expressionism, etc. There are also different schools and styles such as lyric poetry, narrative poetry, philosophical poetry, etc.
Both ancient poetry and modern poetry had their own unique characteristics and development process, each representing different literary schools and cultural traditions.
Modern poetry and ancient poetry are two different types of literature, each with its own unique characteristics and development process.
Ancient poetry originated from ancient Greek and Roman lyric poetry, which developed into modern poetry through medieval knight poetry, Renaissance essays, and romantic poetry. Modern poetry originated in the early 20th century in the United States, experienced the development of modern, post-modern and other schools, and finally reached its peak in the 1950s. The forms of modern poetry were more diverse, including free verse, short poem, long poem, narrative poem, lyric poem, etc. The theme of modern poetry was also more widely involved in society, politics, culture, nature, human nature, etc.
In contrast, modern poetry developed even more rapidly. From the 1930s, many American poets began to try to create poems with more freedom in form and content. In the 1940s and 1950s, many modern poets created the new modern poetry school by praising the theme of selfishness, anti-culture, anti-utopia, etc. In the 1960s and 1970s, poetry began to reflect on social reality and the meaning of human existence, forming the post-modern poetry school. In the 1980s and 1990s, modern poetry became more diverse, including expressionism, symbolism, expressionism-regressionism, neo-expressionism, cultural poetry, electronic poetry, etc.
Modern poetry and ancient poetry have great differences in form, content, theme and style, but they all reflect human thoughts and feelings about life, love, nature, society and so on.