Gushi (poetry)
Gushi (traditional Chinese: 古詩; simplified Chinese: 古诗; pinyin: gǔshī; Wade–Giles: ku-shih), is one of the main poetry forms defined in Classical Chinese poetry, literally meaning "old (or ancient) poetry" or "old (or ancient) style poetry": gushi is a technical term for certain historically exemplary poems, together with later poetry composed in this formal style. == Poetic form == The normal formal style is for uniform line lengths of 5 or 7 syllables (or characters), with lines in syntactically paired couplets.