Form
Ci (Chinese Lyric Meter)
Also Known As Also romanized tz'u (Wade-Giles), as in the standard English-language scholarship on the form.
East Asian Verse Forms
A Chinese lyric verse form of irregular line lengths written to fit one of several hundred fixed musical tune-patterns (cipai), each dictating its own line lengths, rhyme and tonal scheme, that rose from popular song in the Tang dynasty to become the dominant literary verse form of the Song dynasty.
Facts
Place of OriginChina, emerging in the Tang dynasty (8th-9th century) and flourishing as the leading literary form of the Song dynasty (10th-13th century). 1 StructureLines of varying length fixed by a chosen tune-pattern (cipai), each pattern prescribing its own number of lines, syllable counts, rhyme scheme and tonal contour. 1 Notable ExampleThe Song dynasty ci of Li Qingzhao and Su Shi. 1 Connections
Form Of Genre
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Influenced
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Influenced By
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Sources
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
Ci (Poetry) (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)References section, Sun Chang citation titleQuote, References section, Sun Chang citation title
Sun Chang, Kang-i. The evolution of Chinese tz'u poetry from late T'ang to Northern Sung.
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