Mulan Poetry is a folk song in the Northern Dynasties and one of the rare excellent narrative poems in Chinese classical poetry, which is selected from Yuefu Poetry edited by Guo Maoqian in the Song Dynasty. More than 300 words long. The story of Mulan, a young girl, who joined the army instead of her father, has created a heroine image who has repeatedly made meritorious deeds on the battlefield without losing the true colors of the working people. This artistic image broke the feudal traditional concept of "men are superior to women". This is a poem that combines realism and romanticism. The language of poetry is colorful, the spoken language is simple and natural, and the sentences are exquisite and neat. The whole sentence pattern is scattered, the length is scattered, the sentence is recited repeatedly, and the metaphor is novel and surprising, which strengthens the musicality and expressiveness of this poem.
Peacock flies southeast, the poem title of Han Yuefu, is named because its first sentence is "Peacock flies southeast". The first time I saw Xu Ling's "Yutai New Poetry" was in the Chen Dynasty, and the title was "Ancient Poems by Wife". The whole poem is more than 1,700 words, which is the earliest narrative poem preserved in ancient China. Through the tragic marriage between Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi. It effectively exposed the evils of feudal ethics and patriarchal clan system, and at the same time warmly praised the fighting spirit of Lan Zhi and his wife who were faithful to love and would rather die than surrender. Peacock Flying Southeast has made great artistic achievements, and successfully created several characters with distinctive personalities, through which the theme of anti-feudal ethics was expressed. The language of the whole poem is concise and fluent, with strong narrative lyricism and extravagant description, which is the masterpiece 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 shining gems in China's poetry treasure house, known as "Yuefu Shuangbi", and have been loved by people of all ages.