骈体

piántǐ

骈体 — piántǐ

1. parallel prose (an ornate, antithetical style of classical Chinese prose)

   骈体文盛行于南北朝和隋唐时期，以对偶、用典、整齐的句式为特点。 piántǐwén shèngxíngyú nánběicháo hé suítáng shíqī yǐ duìǒu yòngdiǎn zhěngqí de jùshì wèi tèdiǎn — Pian-ti prose flourished during the Northern and Southern dynasties and the Sui and Tang periods, characterized by parallelism, classical allusions, and regular sentence patterns.