1 shows people's misery, resentment and resistance. For example, A Journey to the Orphan reflects the tragedy caused by moral decay under private ownership, and A Journey to the East Gate shows the resistance of the people after they are unbearable. This kind of folk songs, far beyond the pre-Qin folk songs, reflect the new characteristics of the times.
2. Accuse the people of the heavy disasters brought by war and corvee, such as Battle of the South of the City, Joining the Army in the Tenth Five-Year Plan and Elegy.
3. It reflects the eternal theme of love, marriage and family, and praises the loyal love that people pursued at that time and the struggle against feudal ethics. Thinking, evil, peacocks flying southeast and so on are all such folk songs.
4. There are some allegorical poems in Han Yuefu folk songs, such as "Five Tones" and "A Dead Fish Weeping across the River", which are good at personification and have a strange and rich imagination. They expose the cruelty of the rulers through twists and turns, show the people's anxiety about life and disaster, and leave some useful social life experiences.
5. There is also a famous song "Jiangnan" in the folk songs of Han Yuefu, which depicts the scene of fish swimming around lotus leaves in the form of repeated singing, showing the happy mood of young men and women picking lotus flowers and showing the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan water town.
Han Yuefu said:
Han Yuefu refers to an institution specializing in the teaching management of music and dance singing. Originally established in the Qin Dynasty, it was an institution under the jurisdiction of Shaofu at that time. It was formally established in the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, and its duty was to collect folk songs or poems of literati for music, so as to prepare for the performance of the imperial court during sacrifices or banquets. The poems collected by Yuefu were later called Yuefu poems, or Yuefu for short. It is a new poetic style after The Book of Songs and Songs of the South.
According to "Han Shu Guan Bai Gong Qing Biao", when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was in power, the Yuefu Order consisted of three officials. According to the History of Rites and Music in Han Dynasty, by the end of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, Yuefu had more than 800 employees and became a large-scale music institution.
More than 100 years from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Cheng was the heyday of Yuefu. Emperor Ai ascended the throne, ordered the dismissal of Yuefu officials, greatly reduced Yuefu personnel, and placed the rest under the jurisdiction of the order. Since then, there has been no Yuefu organizational system in the Han Dynasty.
The organ in charge of music in the Eastern Han Dynasty also belonged to two systems. One is Taiyue Music Department, and the chief executive is Taiyue Order, which is equivalent to Taiyue Order in the Western Han Dynasty and belongs to Tai Changqing. One is the propaganda department of Huangmen, in charge of Cheng Hualing, belonging to Shaofu. The name of Huang Men's advocacy has existed since the Western Han Dynasty, and it has a very close relationship with Yuefu.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Huangmen Propaganda Department, which was in charge of Cheng Hualing, provided songs for the ministers who enjoyed the banquet, which actually played the role of Yuefu in the Western Han Dynasty. Yuefu poems in the Eastern Han Dynasty were mainly sung by Huangmen Propaganda Department, so they were preserved.