南朝四言詩論述

Abstract

Siyan poetry had been recognized as a standardized form of poetry from ≪Shijing≫ era of China until the Wei Jin Dynasty era. However, from the late Han Dynasty era, Wuyan poetry started to flourish, which led the sudden decline of Siyan poetry. This phenomenon had gone further in the Southern Dynasties era. This paper studied how Siyan poetry had been deteriorated throughout this Southern Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty era, comparatively various topics of Siyan poetry were explored. Meanwhile, the quantity of these poems decreased profoundly. The Qi Dynasty era observed a little increase of Siyan poetry; however, topics were limited to a certain range. These formatted poems dwindled almost vertically in the Liang Dynastry era and came to a dead-end in the Chen Dynastry era. As a result, Siyan poetry lost its position completely in the world of Chinese poetry.