ancient folk songs of four seven-character lines with love or local topics as their theme
Liu Yuxi in Tang Dynasty
The willow-green river is wide and flat, and I heard the song of the river.
Rain in the east, sunrise in the east, said it was not sunny, but it was still sunny.
Translation:
The willows on the riverside are lingering, and the wicker gently blows water; The flowing water in the river is as smooth as a mirror. Suddenly I heard the cheerful songs of young people floating on the river. In the east, the sun shines brilliantly on the earth, while in the west, the rain is soft and quiet, saying it is rainy, but it is also sunny.
2. Classic stories
Outside the gate of Qi State, Confucius met a child with a wine container and walked with him. The child has a pair of pure eyes, a pure heart and strict manners. Confucius said to the coachman, "Hurry up, hurry up, the Shaole is about to start."
Confucius went there, listened to Shao's performance and went without food for three months. Therefore, music is not only used to make yourself happy, it can also make others happy together. It is not only to make a person behave well, but also to play a positive role. Well done! No one who can be happy about it expected the concert to reach such a state.
Extended data:
The combination of poetry and music
Han Yuefu folk songs skillfully combine music with poetry. With vivid spoken language, cordial and simple, narrative and lyrical combination, the feelings are really touching. For example, Journey to the Orphan is about orphans being abused by their brothers and sisters-in-law. Although the poems are uneven, the feelings and circumstances of the orphans are vivid. The sentence length of poetry varies from two words to eight words, from neat seven-character poems to complicated miscellaneous poems.
There are many complete five-character poems in Han Yuefu, such as Picking Lotus in the South of the Yangtze River and Peacock Flying Southeast, which have one syllable more than the four-character poems, adapted to the development of social language at that time and enhanced the expressive force of poems.
The rhyme of Han Yuefu folk songs is free and flexible. Rhyming; Rhyme with other sentences; There are also two sentences that rhyme with each other, such as "the southeast corner of sunrise" and "calling yourself Luo Fu" in Shang Mo Sang. This shows the diversity of rhymes.
This combination makes the folk songs cycle and rhyme harmoniously. In the folk songs of that day, there are many beautiful poems, which are cyclic, vivid, harmonious in rhyme and lively in words, which are the true colors of folk songs.
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