Chinese poetry forms

Chinese lyrical poetic genre whose meters are determined by one of around 800 patterns, each associated with a particular title

Chinese literary genre of rhymed prose in which a place, object, feeling, or other subject is described and rhapsodized in exhaustive detail

the Chinese conception of poetry

Yuefu are Chinese poems composed in a folk song style. The term originally literally meant "Music Bureau", a reference to the imperial Chinese governmental organization(s) originally charged with collecting or writing the lyrics, later the term yuefu was applied to later literary imitations or adaptations of the Music Bureau's poems. The use of fu in yuefu is different from the other Chinese term fu that refers to a type of poetry or literature: although homonyms in English, the other fu () is a rhapsodic poetry/prose form of literature.

a pair of lines adhering to specific rules in Chinese poetry

form of Classical Chinese poetry consisting of words written in one of a number of certain, set tone patterns, based upon the tunes of various songs

form of Classical Chinese poetry using uniform line lengths of 5 or 7 characters

Jueju (), or Chinese quatrain, is a type of jintishi ("modern form poetry") that grew popular among Chinese poets in the Tang dynasty (618–907), although traceable to earlier origins. Jueju poems are always quatrains; or, more specifically, a matched pair of couplets, with each line consisting of five or seven syllables.

Chinese fortune telling practice

Sanqu () is a fixed-rhythm form of Classical Chinese poetry or "literary song". Specifically sanqu is a subtype of the qu formal type of poetry. Sanqu was a notable Chinese poetic form, possibly beginning in the Jin dynasty (1115–1234), but especially associated with the Yuan (1271–1368), Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1912) dynasties. The tonal patterns modeled on tunes drawn from folk songs or other music.

specific form of Classical Chinese poetry verse form, popular among Han ethnic group during the Tang Dynasty in five-character or seven-character)