"Since the filial piety emperor wudi made Yuefu, collecting ballads, there are generations, Qin and Chu. It's all mixed feelings. It's all caused by things. This is described in History of Literature and Art when describing Yuefu poems in the Western Han Dynasty. Yuefu poems in Han Dynasty are all felt by the creative subject and have strong pertinence.
A certain literary creation is based on a certain background of the times. Han Yuefu is no exception. Accurately speaking, the background of Yuefu poetry is actually the product of politics and war, most of which are realistic and accurate descriptions, but there are also many romantic techniques.
To talk about the spirit of caring for life in Han Yuefu, we have to talk about war. In the Han Dynasty, from the beginning of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, wars were frequent, and most people were called up to fight. Unfortunately, there is a saying that "the wild die without burying the dead". The deceased died on the battlefield, and no one was buried outside the city. Crows can peck at them at will. What a sad ending! Fortunately, "join the army at fifteen and return at the beginning of eighty", but what can be done to save a life? By the time I got home, my relatives had already disappeared. The Battle of the South of the City and the Tenth Five-Year Draft showed the devastation of war on human life to the fullest, showing people's aversion to war and cherishing life at that time.
Conscious understanding of individual life and thinking about life and death are the embodiment of humanistic spirit when literary works are created. One of the major features of the poems of Yuefu in Han Dynasty is that evil death is closely linked with happy life. Han Yuefu's two poems show people's aversion to death and cherish life very frankly, and even some poems connect people with God when expressing the illusion of longevity, and express the ideal of harmony between man and nature through the immortality or secularization of people.
"The autumn dew, how easy it is. The dew fell even more in the Ming Dynasty. When will people die? " Writing about people's lives is not as good as dew on leaves. Although the dew will dry today, it will fall on the leaves tomorrow morning, thus thinking about people's life. Once they die, there is no chance of resurrection and they will disappear into this world forever. And "Artemisia" wrote: "How can a ghost rush? Never lose your life. " This is to look at people's death from the perspective of theism, and to write out the indifference of uncle ghost and the helpless situation of people in front of uncle ghost. Both of these mourning songs describe death as an inevitable cruel event imposed on others, which embodies people's fear of death.
Since people at that time were very disgusted with death, they must need spiritual sustenance and want to know how I can live forever. In order to get rid of worldly troubles. In addition, the way of becoming immortal prevailed at that time, and most people believed in immortals. They expected that they could live forever, or they could become immortals themselves, travel in heaven and enjoy the joy on the other side of the world. As written in Song of Songs, the poet fantasizes about entering the ideal world of heaven, and then all the immortals are busy for his arrival. The gods gave wine, Hebo gave carp, the Oriental Dragon and Seven Stars gave a banquet, the Western White Tiger and Seven Stars poured wine into the pot, Beidou came to blowing sheng to dance, and even Chang 'e came to dance. Everything is busy for the arrival of "we" and everything is for "service". And endowed many celestial bodies with life, which brought the gods and the earth together and showed a limited life beyond individual life. In addition, there is "Shang Ling", which is about the descent of immortals, which is extraordinary. On the surface, it is the approach of the gods to the creative subject. In fact, it implies that the poet has immortal attributes with the help of the power of the gods and hopes to become a member of the fairy world. It shows people's yearning for carrying their bodies into the celestial realm.
To sum up, Han Yuefu's poems attach great importance to individual life itself, which embodies a strong connotation of humanistic spirit and plays an important role in the inheritance of humanistic spirit.