Abstract
Changxieyao was a common prosodic phenomenon in the five-character poetry of the Six Dynasties. After the transformation by Xie Tiao and He Xun, the style of Changjiedeng became more mature, but the number of poems written in this style was still small, hence the lack of diversity in the prosody of poetry. Since 663 CE, the situation began to change: Lu Zhaolin, Cui Rong, Du Shenyan, among many others started to use Changjiedeng and Changjiedeng interchangeably in their five-character poems, which enriched prosody in poetic writing. This move was related to Yuan Jing's theory of Changxieyao and Changjiedeng. Ever since, poets began to valorize the prosodic relation between lines and put it in practice. Therefore, Changxieyao and Changjiedeng were key to the development of five-character poems.
First Page
77
Last Page
85
Recommended Citation
Xiang, Hongqiang. 2020. "Changxieyao and Changjiedeng: Prosodic Theory and the Evolvement of Five-Character Poetry in the Early Tang Dynasty." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 40, (4): pp.77-85. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol40/iss4/3
