/lw-chinese-style

The Chinese-style layer for lyric writing (中国风歌词). What makes a lyric read as 中国风 rather than merely decorated - the vocabulary families it draws on (place, dynasty, object, craft, plant), the sixteen rhetorical devices Fang Wen-shan catalogues inside his own lyrics, each with a book example and a failure condition, why every image must belong to one material world and how one out-of-period object breaks it, the four grades of borrowing from classical verse and where borrowing becomes copying, what to do when the listener will not catch the allusion, what the words promise the arrangement when they name an instrument, and the three ways this style usually dies - ornament with no event, images unrelated to what the song says, and archaism for its own sake. Use when writing or auditing a 中国风 or 古风 lyric, when a draft is full of beautiful old words but says nothing, when checking an allusion, when images from different eras collide, or when the words name an instrument. 中国风、古风、典故、化用、文字游戏、修辞、意象成套、方文山、穿帮。