The two Yuefu jewels in ancient my country refer to: the Han Yuefu poem "The Peacock Flies Southeast" and the Northern Dynasty folk song "Mulan Poetry".
"Mulan Poetry" is a Northern Dynasty folk song and one of the rare excellent narrative poems in Chinese classical poetry. It is selected from "Yuefu Poems" compiled by Guo Maoqian in the Song Dynasty.
"Peacock Flying Southeast" is the name of a Han Yuefu poem. It is named because the first line is "Peacock Flying Southeast". It was first seen in "New Odes of Yutai" by Xu Ling of the Chen Dynasty, titled "Ancient Poetry Written by Jiao Zhongqing's Wife".
"The Peacock Flying Southeast" has high artistic achievements and successfully created several distinctive characters, through which it expresses the theme of anti-feudal ethics. The language of the whole poem is simple and smooth, the narrative is full of lyricism, and the description is extravagant and parallel. It is a representative work of five-character narrative poetry at that time. ?
Significance
Through the love tragedy of Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing, a loving couple, "The Peacock Flies Southeast" indicts the sins of feudal ethics, patriarchal rule and clan concepts, and expresses the youth's The reasonable desire of men and women to demand autonomy in marriage and love.
The heroine Liu Lanzhi is loyal to love, and her uncompromising struggle against feudal forces and feudal ethics makes her a rebellious woman image in the history of literature, and is praised by subsequent young men and women. .
The traditional and simplified arrangement of "Mulan Poetry" is very original. Although it is about war, it focuses more on life scenes and the moods of children, which is full of life. The poem uses questions and answers to depict the psychology of the characters, which is vivid and detailed; it uses numerous parallels to describe the behavioral moods, which is lively; and it uses interesting metaphors to conclude the whole poem, which is evocative. This gives the work a strong artistic appeal.