Seven-character ancient poetry, referred to as seven-character ancient poetry for short, is a poetic form with the most vivid form, the most diverse genre, the most free syntax and phonology, and the most expressive lyrical narrative. The whole poem consists of seven words or seven sentences. Simply put, it is long in length, large in capacity and flexible in rhyme. For example, Du Fu's seven-character ancient poem "Song of Lady Gong Sun's Female Student Dancing Knife" and "Song of General Cao's Drawing" and so on.
Seven-character ancient poetry is a genre of ancient Chinese poetry, which consists of seven words or seven sentences.
It originated from folk songs. In the pre-Qin period, in addition to the seven-character sentences in The Book of Songs and Songs of the South, Xiangcheng Pian written by Xunzi is a kind of miscellaneous verse with seven characters as the main body, which is an imitation of folk songs. In the Western Han Dynasty, there were seven popular rhymes, such as Sima Xiangru's Fan Jiang and You's Jiupian, as well as Louhu Song and Shangjun Song contained in Hanshu.
Writing all kinds of poetic articles with rhythm, dignity or curiosity is the basic skill of calligraphers.