Mulan Poem, a folk song in the Northern Dynasties, is also one of the rare excellent narrative poems in Chinese classical poetry, which is selected from Yuefu Poems edited by Guo Maoqian in the Song Dynasty. It is more than 3 words long. The story of Mulan, a young girl who joined the army instead of her father, created a heroine image who went to the battlefield and made meritorious deeds repeatedly without losing the true colors of the working people. This artistic image has broken the feudal traditional concept that "women are inferior to men". It is a poem that combines realism and romanticism. The language of poetry is rich and colorful, with simple and natural spoken language and exquisite and neat sentences. Sentence patterns are whole or scattered, the length is scattered, the sentences are repeatedly chanted, and the metaphors are novel and surprising, all of which strengthen the musicality and expressiveness of the poem.
Peacock flies southeast, which is the name of the poem of Han Yuefu. Because its first sentence is "Peacock flies southeast", it is named. I first saw Xu Ling's "New Poems on Yutai" in Chen Dynasty, titled "Ancient Poems for Jiao Zhongqing's Wife". The whole poem, with more than 1,7 words, is the earliest long narrative poem preserved in ancient China. Through the marriage tragedy of Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi. It effectively exposed the evils of feudal ethics and patriarchal system, and at the same time warmly praised the fighting spirit of Lan Zhi and his wife who would rather die than surrender to feudal evil forces in order to be loyal to love. Peacock Flying Southeast has a high artistic achievement, and has successfully created several distinctive characters, through which the theme of anti-feudal ethics is expressed. The language of the whole poem is simple and smooth, with strong lyricism in narration and extravagant description, which is the representative work of five-character narrative poetry at that time.
These two narrative poems, with their shocking heroic stories and strong rebellious spirit, as well as profound ideological content and perfect artistic form, have become a pair of gems that radiate extraordinary splendour in the treasure house of Chinese poetry, and are called "Yuefu Shuangbi", which has been loved by people of all ages.