First, the language is simple and natural.
1, Han Yuefu folk songs use vivid spoken language, are cordial and simple, and combine narrative and lyric, and their 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.
2. The folk songs of Han Yuefu have no fixed rules and syntax, and the length is arbitrary, scattered and informal, flexible and free. Inherit the four fonts of The Book of Songs; If there are miscellaneous words, the syntax is free and changeable, and the whole is scattered. There are also two, three, four, five, six and seven words, which are extremely free to change. There are many complete five-character poems in Han Yuefu, one syllable more than four-character poems, which adapted to the development of social language at that time and enhanced the expressive force of poems.
There are both lengths, the longest is more than 350 sentences, and the shortest is a few. The length of folk songs in Han Yuefu is different. The longest is more than 350 sentences such as Peacock Flying Southeast, and the shortest is only four sentences such as Zaqu and Dead Fish Weeping across the River. There are only seven sentences in "Picking Lotus in Jiangnan".
Second, the color of romanticism
Although the folk songs of Han Yuefu mostly express reality, many works also use romanticism. For example, Shangxie is as passionate and highly exaggerated as a flash flood; The crow's soul in Vu Thang attracts people. The rotten fish in "Dead Fish Cry Over the River" can cry and write letters. These rich and peculiar fantasies show the characteristics of romanticism.
Third, the cycle is reciprocating and the sound and rhyme are harmonious.
There were many beautiful poems in the folk songs of that day, such as "Picking Lotus in the South of the Yangtze River": "Picking Lotus in the South of the Yangtze River, Hetian Tian brings lotus leaves, and fish play among the lotus leaves. Fish plays lotus leaf east, fish plays lotus leaf west, fish plays lotus leaf south and fish plays lotus leaf north. " This poem echoes back and forth, with vivid image, harmonious rhyme and lively words, which is the true nature of folk songs.
Fourth, narrative in the form of dialogue or monologue.
Yuefu poems in the Han Dynasty ingeniously cast dialogues to depict characters, which are full of sound and emotion, making people feel like hearing their voices and seeing their people. For example, "Picking Weeds on the Mountain" even consists almost entirely of questions and answers from the abandoned wife and her dead husband, which shows the kind character of her wife. There are also monologues throughout, such as the plight of orphans written in monologues in "The Journey of Orphans".
Five, even sentences
Even-even sentences can also be said to be the characteristics of all aspects of Han Yuefu, such as "Shang Mo Sang": "There is a bun on your head and a bright moon in your ear. The bottom skirt, the purple one is the top one.
Sixth, the rhyme is flexible.
The rhyme of Han Yuefu folk songs is free and flexible. Rhyming; There are rhyming sentences, such as "East Gate", "Yan Ge" and "Fu Liangyin". There are also rhymes between two sentences and three sentences, such as "the southeast corner of sunrise" and "calling yourself Luo Fu" in Shang Mo Sang rhymes with two sentences, and "According to my Qin family" and "Guizhi as a cage hook" rhymes with five sentences. This shows the diversity of rhymes.
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