In terms of style, there are also significant differences between the northern and southern Yuefu folk songs. Southern songs mostly write touching and euphemistic love, with delicate and graceful style, while Northern songs mostly express generous and tragic emotions, and the language is not as beautiful as Southern songs, but straightforward and rough in simplicity, and the rhetorical devices of pun and harmony commonly used in Southern songs are hardly seen in Northern songs. The differences in content and style between the northern and southern folk songs are closely related to the differences in tones between them. Wu Shengtong's western music has a soft tone, and the content style is naturally euphemistic and tortuous, while the northern song's drum-horn cross-blowing song is the military's immediate Wu Le, and its tone is vigorous and sorrowful, which coincides with the style of the northern song.
In terms of artistic form, the formal system of Yuefu folk songs in the north and the south is relatively close, and most of the northern songs are short lyric poems, with five words and four sentences as the most. However, there are poems with five words, three sentences, five sentences and six sentences in South Song, which are rare in North Song, and seven words, two sentences and four sentences in North Song are also absent in South Song. As for narrative poems, the northern songs are unique. In addition to Mulan Poetry, there is also a song on Longshang, which is included in Yuefu Poetry Collection as a kind of miscellaneous ballads. However, there are only two narrative poems in the northern songs.