A Chinese verse form descended from ci but freer, permitting colloquial diction, added filler syllables and a wider popular register, written to Yuan-dynasty musical modes and used both as independent lyric verse (sanqu) and as the sung verse of Yuan dynasty drama (zaju).
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Place of OriginChina, Yuan dynasty (13th-14th century). 1 StructureLines set to a fixed musical mode as in ci, but admitting extra colloquial filler syllables and vernacular diction not permitted in ci. 1 Notable ExampleThe sanqu verses of Guan Hanqing, also a leading Yuan zaju dramatist. 1 Connections
Form Of Genre
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Qu (Poetry) (Wikipedia)
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Qu (Chinese: 曲; pinyin: qǔ; Wade-Giles: ch'ü) form of poetry from the Yuan Dynasty may be called 元曲 (Yuánqǔ; Yüan-ch'ü).
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