Classification Study Of Four-character Verse Of Wei And Jin Dynasty

Four-character verse is one of the most ancient verse styles. Pre-Qin dynasty's The Book of Odes has long represented the prime work in the artistic development of four-character verse. However, during a long period after pre-Qin dynasty four-character verse went downhill. Wei and Jin dynasty witnessed another peak time for four-character verse's development while history researchers hardly pay attention to four-character verse but consider Wei and Jin dynasty as the prime time for five-character verse which is the centre of their focus. This article makes a research on the five categories of verse including yuefu verse, remembrance verse, thank-you verse, social interaction verse from the angle of classification study of four-character verse of Wei and Jin dynasty.This article contains introduction, body and conclusion these three parts. The introduction part gives a brief description on the development of four-character verse in Wei and Jin dynasty and uncovers the defects of the predecessors' research on four-character verse. The new trend of the four-character verse since 21st century, the intention of creation of this article and its research methods will be shown in the introduction part as well. The body has two sections. The first section in the first place gives a concise conclusion on the development courses of four-character verse from pre-Qin dynasty to Han dynasty before Wei and Jin dynasty. On the other hand, it talks about the development details of four-character verse in Jian'an, Zhengshi, Xi'jin, Dongjin these four dynesties whereas classifying four-characters including Jian'an yuefu verse, Zhengshi remembrance verse, Xijin thank-you verse, social interaction verse verse, Dongjin metaphysics verse and landscape verse by displaying the percentage in chart, which signifies its eye-catching epoch characteristics and quantity. The second section gives a dependant study on the five categories of verses in Wei and Jin dynasty. It respectively tells you the development of four-character verses of all types, analyzing their artistic features and the reasons for four-character verse's rise and fall. From the angle of subject matter of four-character verse in Wei and Jin dynasty, the descendants and innovation of verse creation style, it discusses about the part that four-character verse of Wei and Jin dynasty plays in the development history of verse. The conclusion part has a overall bird's eye view of this article. Unlike five-character verse that poured out like spring and had a shining achievement, four-character verse of Wei and Jin dynasty has displayed its outstanding epoch characteristics in terms of its creation quantity and the artistic achievements. This article makes a classification study on the four-character verse and thus the exploration of its subject matter and the writing style results in a positive influence upon the five-character verse to some extend while four-character verse carried out functions that five-character verse fail to. Accordingly, in the Wei and Jin dynasty when the development of five-character verse reached its prime time, four-character verse displayed its irreplaceable value and needfulness to the epoch.