1, source:
Folk songs of Yuefu in Han Dynasty were collected, preserved and handed down by the royal Yuefu system or the music management organ equivalent to Yuefu function, and most of them were non-mainstream folk creations.
Folk songs in the Southern Dynasties were mainly produced in commercial cities, and were mostly sung at banquets and other occasions, which had a wide influence on the upper class.
2. Contents:
For the first time, the folk songs of Han Yuefu specifically and profoundly reflected the hardships and sufferings of the lower classes in their daily lives.
The content of folk songs in the Southern Dynasties is relatively simple, and the expression of love life is more core.
The folk songs of the Northern Dynasties are rough and bold, which fully reflect the social life of the nation.
3. Theme:
Women's theme works occupy an important position in the folk songs of Han Yuefu, and the love and marriage themes in the folk songs of the Northern and Southern Dynasties also adopt a female perspective to increase the tone of men, which is related to the love and marriage customs and wedding games of the northern nationalities.
4. Poetry genre:
The folk songs of Han Yuefu adopted a new poetic style: miscellaneous words and five words. Especially after the Eastern Han Dynasty, there are more and more neat five-character poems in Yuefu folk songs.
In the Tang Dynasty, the five-character and four-sentence poems used in the folk songs of the Southern Dynasties became a big landscape, and poets Li Bai and Wang Changling, who are famous for their quatrains, appeared.
Although the folk songs in the Northern Dynasties are mainly composed of five words and four sentences, there are also four words, seven words and miscellaneous words, which are not as monotonous as the folk songs in the Southern Dynasties.
(2) Similarity:
1, style:
Han Yuefu folk songs and Yuefu folk songs in the Southern and Northern Dynasties are both realistic works, and the folk songs in the Southern and Northern Dynasties inherited the realistic spirit of the Book of Songs and Han Yuefu folk songs, especially the folk songs in the Northern Dynasties.
2. Poetic style:
Han Yuefu folk songs adopt new poetic style, miscellaneous language style and five-character style. The folk songs of the Northern and Southern Dynasties are also lyrical, using five words.
3. The folk songs of Han Yuefu laid the foundation of China's ancient narrative poems. The folk songs in the Northern and Southern Dynasties are mainly narrative poems, but the poetic language in the Northern Dynasties has a strong national flavor.
4. Both poems contain rich imagination and continue to influence the creation of literati.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Han Yuefu Folk Songs
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