The New Yuefu Movement and the Poetry Innovation Movement were initiated by Tang poets Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen and Zhang Jihe Li Shen. They advocated restoring the ancient system of poetry collection, carrying forward the tradition of satirizing current events in The Book of Songs and Yuefu in Han and Wei Dynasties, and making poetry play the role of "commenting on current events" and "releasing human feelings", emphasizing writing current events with the theme of new Yuefu created by themselves, hence the name.
The so-called new Yuefu is relative to the ancient Yuefu. Guo Maoqian in Song Dynasty pointed out that the new Yuefu was a new song in Tang Dynasty. With its words, Yuefu has never heard of it, so it is called Xinle Yuefu. Hu Zhenheng in Ming Dynasty said: In Yuefu, there are differences between the old and the new. Those who went to Yuefu, those below the Han and Wei Dynasties and those above Sui Chen wrote ancient poems of the Tang Dynasty. The new topic, the ancient Yuefu has disappeared, and the Tang people made a new system.
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Yuefu, located in the Western Han Dynasty, was in charge of court and court music. Poems collected and created by Yuefu are called Yuefu. A considerable part of Yuefu poems are collected from the people, which are easy to understand, reflect reality and can be happy. Later, scholars also copied Yuefu poems. By the Tang Dynasty, Yuefu poems before the Southern and Northern Dynasties were collectively called Ancient Yuefu.
Bai Juyi, "Bai Yuan" refers to Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi, poets in the middle Tang Dynasty. They are all advocates of the new Yuefu movement. Bai Yuan said it was popular in the era when Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi lived. Bai Juyi said in Preface to Liu Yuxi's Poems: Qing Yu and Wei Yuan have a lot of tacit understanding, or in the population. A scholar woman is in the south of the Yangtze River, and a talented person is in the language cloud' Bai Yuan'.
Yuan Mochuan in Old Tang Dynasty: "Cong Cong is a brilliant policeman. He became famous at a young age and made friends with Taiyuan Bai Juyi. He devoted himself to writing poems and looking for a good style of writing. At that time, poets called it "Yuan" and "Bai".
The main literary activities of Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen and other poets were in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, so their poems and imitations were collectively called "Yuanhe Style" and "The Biography of Yuan Zhen in the New Tang Dynasty": "Zhen is especially good at poetry, which is different from Bai Juyi, satirizing the world and named" Yuanhe Style ".