The Han, Wei and Six Dynasties were famous for Yuefu folk songs. Yuefu was originally a music institution established by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which was used to train musicians, make music scores and collect lyrics, among which a large number of folk songs were collected. Later, Yuefu became a poetic name with musicality.
The Yuefu poems in Han Dynasty are mainly preserved in seven of the twelve categories of Guo Maoqian's Yuefu poems in Song Dynasty, including elegant music of symphonic music, eighteen songs of worship, and folk songs mainly composed of harmony songs, dance songs and miscellaneous songs. Yuefu folk songs in Han Dynasty are rich in content, reflecting the broad social life at that time, and are vigorous and fresh in art. Their poetic forms of five-character, seven-character and miscellaneous words are the pioneers of literati's five-character and seven-character poems, and they are precious wealth in the history of Chinese poetry.