Han Yuefu poetry conveyed the voices of the people in the Han Dynasty and reflected the broad social reality. Its ideological contents mainly include:
1. Expressing the people's misery, resentment and resistance. For example, "Orphan's Journey" reflects the tragedy caused by moral decay under private ownership, and "East Gate Journey" shows the people's resistance after becoming intolerable. This type of folk songs far exceeds the "resentment" boundaries of pre-Qin folk songs and reflects the characteristics of the new era.
2. Complaints about the heavy disasters brought by war and corvee to the people, "Battle in the South of the City", "Fifteenth Military Expedition", "Elegy", etc. belong to this category.
3. Reflecting the eternal theme of love, marriage, and family issues, and using it to praise the steadfast love pursued by people at that time and their struggle against feudal ethics, "Thinking" and "Shangxie" , "Peacock Flying Southeast" and so on are all such folk songs.
4. There are also some allegorical poems in Han Yuefu folk songs, such as "Wu Sheng", "Dry Fish Crossing the River Crying", etc., which make good use of personification, have strange and rich imagination, and expose the cruelty of the rulers through twists and turns. , showing the people's fear of disaster and leaving behind some useful social life experiences.
5. There is also a famous piece in Han Yuefu folk songs with the theme of labor - "Jiangnan", which uses repeated chanting to describe the scene of fish swimming around lotus leaves, expressing the The happy mood of young men and women picking lotus shows the bright and beautiful scenery of the Jiangnan water town.
Extended information:
Han Yuefu is another collection of ancient folk songs after the "Book of Songs". Unlike the "Book of Songs" ("The Book of Songs" is also a realism), it pioneered A new trend of poetic realism.
Women-themed works occupy an important position in Han Yuefu folk songs. They use popular language to construct works that are close to life. They gradually move from miscellaneous words to five words, adopt narrative writing methods, depict characters in detail, and create distinctive characters. , the storyline is relatively complete, and it can highlight the ideological connotation and focus on depicting typical details, opening up a new stage of mature development of narrative poetry. It is an important stage in the development of the five-character poetry style in the history of Chinese poetry. Han Yuefu has a very high status in the history of literature, standing side by side with the Book of Songs and Chu Ci.
"Sang on the Moshang" and "The Peacock Flying Southeast" are both Han Yuefu folk songs. The latter is the longest narrative poem in ancient my country. "The Peacock Flying Southeast" and "Mulan Poetry" are collectively known as the "Two Jewels of Yuefu" .