Song ci is composed of several parts.

Ci is a kind of poetry. Because it is the lyrics of music and harmony, it is also called tune, Yuefu, music movement, long and short sentences, poetry, piano music and so on. It began in the Sui Dynasty, took shape in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the national music imported from the western regions gradually merged with the old music of the Central Plains, and Hu music was the main music that produced Yan music. The original neat five-character seven-character poem is no longer suitable, so there are words with different words and more lively forms.

Ci originated from the folk, and later literati wrote new words according to the rhythm of music score, called "Ci" or "Yin". From then on, the word was separated from music, forming a kind of metrical poem with uneven sentence length. Fifth, the seven-character poem is symmetrical and dual, presenting the beauty of neatness; The characters are mainly long and short sentences, showing uneven aesthetic feeling.

Words have epigrams, that is, tunes Some intonations have different "styles" because of different words or sentence patterns. Common aphorisms are about 100. The structure of a word is divided into blocks or pieces, which are monotonous, two are disyllabic, and three are called triple. According to different music, there are differences in order, quotation, approach and slowness. "Ling" is generally short, and the words used by early literati are mostly filled in poems. For example, the sixteen-character order, the dream order, and the child's play order. "Yin" and "gold" are generally long, such as Jiang Mei Yin, Yangguan Yin, Zhu Yingtai Gold, Zhongqing Qingjin and so on. And "slow" is longer than "introduction" and "proximity", which prevailed after the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, and there is a saying that Liu Yong "began to preach slowly". Epigraph such as Magnolia Slow, Lin Yuling Slow, etc. According to the number of words, there are also "Xiao Ling", "alto" and "long tune". According to Mao's Ci Xie in Qing Dynasty, words below 58 are small notes, words between 59 and 90 are medium notes, and words below 90 are long notes. The longest inscription, Preface to Bird Singing, has 240 words.

A epigraph reflects a certain sound and emotion. Most of the origins of epigraph names have not been verified. Only a few capable words such as Bodhisattva Man and Qin Yi E ... The rhyme of words is where music stops. Generally do not change rhyme. Some words, some words, some words. Like five-character poems and seven-character poems, the words are all flush. And the sound should be divided into up, down and in. You can overlap words.

Because most of the ci poems in the late Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty were written for entertaining guests before the banquet, there is a saying that "ci is a path, colorful" and "poetry is charming". With the development of Ci, Liu Yong and Su Shi gradually expanded the theme of Ci until Xin Qiji reached the peak and became a literary genre with the same status as poetry.