History of Tang Quatrains
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Zhou Xiaotian's "History of Tang Quatrains" is a partial chronological history and the first monograph on the history of Tang Dynasty quatrains in mainland China. It is a historical narrative about Tang quatrains, and at the same time it is a comprehensive study of the art of Chinese quatrains; it is both a literary history and an experiment in historical methodology. It not only uses Tang quatrains as material to write history, but also uses history as a means to study Tang quatrains. Quatrains are the shortest form of traditional Chinese poetry. Jin Shengtan analyzed Tang Dynasty rhymed poetry and regarded a rhymed poem as consisting of two quatrains. Xizhou Qu among the Five Ancients and Sijie Style among the Seven Ancients can also be regarded as composed of several quatrains. As for one of the sources of word style is quatrain, this is also an indisputable fact.
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