What is Yuefu Poetry?

1. Yuefu Poetry, also known as Han Yuefu, was first founded in the Qin Dynasty, and it was an institution specializing in the teaching and learning of music and dance aria under the "Shaofu" at that time. In the early Han Dynasty, Yuefu did not exist. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty arrived and rebuilt Yuefu when he held a ceremony in the suburbs. Its duty is to collect folk songs of the Han nationality or poems of literati for music, and to prepare for the court's performance at sacrifices or banquets. The poems it collected were later called "Yuefu Poetry" or "Yuefu Poetry" for short. It is a new poetic style after The Book of Songs and Songs of the South. Later, those who were unhappy were also called Yuefu or Quasi-Yuefu.

Second, expand the scope of knowledge:

1, Han Yuefu is divided into:

(1), Symphony Song: It is mainly a music song written by noble literati for sacrifice, which is gorgeous and elegant and thoughtless. Such as the seventeenth chapter of An Shi Fang Song and the nineteenth chapter of Jiao Ji Song. Music mainly uses Qin music and Chu music.

(2) Advocating music: also known as piccolo and cymbals, it is northern music introduced from northern nationalities in the early Han Dynasty. The lyrics were written later, and the content was more complicated. Mainly Han folk creation.

(3) Harmony songs: Music is folk music collected from all over the country, and most of the songs are "gossip". Among them, there are many masterpieces, which are the essence of Han Yuefu.

(4) Zaqu: Among them, many tunes are unknown. Because there is no classification, it is a category of its own. There are some excellent folk songs in it.

2. Content: When describing Yuefu poems in the Western Han Dynasty, Hanshu wrote: "Since filial piety, Liwu Yuefu has adopted many ballads, so there are generations, Qin and Chu styles. They all feel sad and happy, all because of things. " Yuefu poems in Han dynasty are all based on this theme, which is highly targeted. It is the specific events in daily life that inspire the creative enthusiasm and inspiration of Yuefu poets. Yuefu poems also show sensitive issues that people are generally concerned about, telling the bitterness and joy, love and hate, and attitudes towards life and death of that era.

3. Features: The biggest and most basic artistic feature of Han Yuefu is narrative. This feature is determined by the content of "karma". Although we can already see some works with narrative elements in the Book of Songs, such as Meng and Meng. But it is still expressed through the protagonist's talk, and it is still in the form of lyricism, lacking complete characters and plots, and lacking a centralized description of a central event. However, in the folk songs of Han Yuefu, there are works whose stories are told by a third party, and there are characters with certain characters and complete plots, such as Sang Shang and Walking East, especially Peacock Flying Southeast, which we will describe in the next section. The story and drama of poetry are greatly enhanced than the works in The Book of Songs. Therefore, in the history of China literature, the folk songs of Han Yuefu marked a new and more mature stage of narrative poetry development.