Han Fu is a rhyming prose that appeared in the Han Dynasty. It is characterized by the combination of rhythm and rhyme, and is good at narration. From the form of fu, it lies in "transmitting and receiving"; As far as the content of Fu is concerned, the emphasis is on "writing things and writing ambitions". The content of Han Fu can be divided into five categories: one is to render Miyagi; The second is to describe the emperor hunting; The third is to describe the travel experience; The fourth is to express unsatisfied feelings; The fifth is about animals and plants. In the past, they were representatives of Han Fu.
Generally speaking, Han Fu has three parts in structure, namely preface, text and ending called "chaos" or "news". Most of the writing methods of Han Fu are flowery and gentle, praising the strength of the Han Empire or the civil and military style of the rulers, with only a few strokes at the end, which is slightly ironic and admonitory.
Han Fu can be divided into big Fu and small Fu. Da Fu, also known as Three-body Da Fu, has a huge scale, magnificent structure and magnificent vocabulary, and is often a huge system with thousands of words. Jia Yi, Mei Cheng, Sima Xiangru and Yang Xiong in the Western Han Dynasty, and Ban Gu and Zhang Heng in the Eastern Han Dynasty were all experts in Da Fu, while Fu Xiao abandoned the shortcomings of Da Fu, such as long space, flowery rhetoric, giving up the basics and lacking emotion. On the basis of retaining the basic literary talent of Han Fu, they created short fu and short fu by Zhao Yi, Cai Yong and Mi Fei.
Han Fu was formed in the early Han Dynasty. Jia Yi is the pioneer of Han Fu, and his representative works include Tune Qu Fu Yuan and Pengniao Fu. It was Mei Cheng, a great poet in the early Han Dynasty, who really founded the system of Han Fu. Seven hairs is Mei Cheng's masterpiece, which plays a role in connecting the past with the future.
Hanwu, Xuanyuan and Chengdi era, Hanfu reached its peak. During this period, Sima Xiangru, who was the most famous in the history of Han Fu, was made a saint. There are 29 poems written by Sima Xiangru, and now there are only six left: Zi Xu, Shang Lin, Adult, Nagato, Beauty and Ai Er. Among them, his Tian Zi Wandering Soul Fu includes Zi Xu Fu and Shang Lin Fu, which represents the highest achievement of Han Da Fu. Sima Xiangru basically stipulated the pattern of Han Da Fu in his two poems: first, he piled up a lot of words, exaggerating the role of beauty, and finally ended up with the irony that "lewdness is enough to ruin the country and benevolence is bound to rejuvenate the country", thus creating a system of "persuading everyone to satirize one".
From the end of the Western Han Dynasty to the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Han Fu was basically stereotyped, and later writers could not surpass their predecessors, so the wind of simulation prevailed and Han Fu entered the simulation period. At this time, Yang Xiong and Ban Gu were the most famous writers of Han Fu.
From the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the end of the year, Han Fu entered a transitional period, that is, it developed in a direction close to reality. Zhang Heng's Return to Tianfu attacked social politics and showed a tendency of dissatisfaction, which initially laid the foundation for Fu Xiao. Cai Yong's Shu Xing Fu made him the second master of Han Fu. His poems are profound in content and proper in wording, which lashes the ugliness of society and shows sympathy and care for the people's sufferings.
From Han Fu to Wei and Jin Dynasties, it was shaped as a small fu, evolved into a parallel prose fu in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and transformed into a law fu and a prose fu in the Tang and Song Dynasties.