The biggest and most basic artistic feature of folk songs in Han Yuefu is narrative. This feature is determined by the content of "karma".
Han Yuefu expresses the characters' character through their words and deeds. Some adopt the form of dialogue, such as the dialogue between Luo Fu and the emissary in Mo Shang Sang, and the dialogue between the wife and her husband in East Gate, all of which can show different characters such as wit, courage and kindness. In addition to dialogue, some people also use monologues, often using the first person to let the characters speak directly, such as A Journey to the Orphan, A White-headed Singer, Evil and so on. Han Yuefu pays attention to the depiction of characters' movements and details. For example, it is suspected that "Fu" is written in "Ge Yanxing" and "Xie Ke Northwest Lang"; "Woman's Disease" uses "I don't know what to cry for" to write the maternal love of a dying woman, which is vivid and vivid.
The language of Han Yuefu folk songs is generally colloquial, simple and natural, and full of emotion. At the same time, it is full of feelings and people's love and hate. Even narrative poetry is a combination of narrative and lyric, so it has a strong appeal. On the one hand, the folk songs of Han Yuefu are mostly about the people themselves, and the author of the poem is often the hero in the poem; On the other hand, because the author and the characters he describes have the same fate and life experience, narrative and lyricism naturally blend together to achieve "shallow and profound". For example, The Orphan's Journey does not make an empty cry about the orphans' pain, but focuses on the specific description and writes the orphans' physical and mental pain with simple painting techniques. Even if life is worse than death, the taste will naturally come from it. At the same time, it also reflects the author's sympathy for people's lives.
The length of Yuefu poems in Han Dynasty is long and short, the longest is more than 350 sentences, and the shortest is a few. For example, the longest "Peacock Flying Southeast" has more than 350 sentences, the short "Zaqu Dead Fish Weeping across the River" has only 4 sentences, while "Picking Lotus in Jiangnan" has only 7 sentences. Yuefu poems in Han Dynasty have flexible rhymes. The rhyme of folk songs is free, flexible and changeable. Some rhymes, such as "Ping Ling East", "Ping Ling East, pine and cypress trees, I don't know who robbed them" (Ang), "I am so sad that I have to tell my family to sell yellow calves" (U), and some rhymes, such as "East Gate Tour" and "Ge Yan Tour". There are also rhymes between two sentences and three sentences, such as "Sunrise in the Southeast Corner" and "Named Luo Fu" in Shang Mo Sang are two rhymes apart, and "Take My Qin Family" and "Gui Zhi as a Cage Hook" are five rhymes apart. All these show the diversity of rhymes, increase the vividness of poems and make them catchy to read. Han Yuefu poetry is also good at using metaphor, personification, exaggeration, exposition and contrast. For example, Ode to a Bald Head refers to the purity of women's love with "snow on the mountain and moon in the clouds"; Mulberry on the Stranger expresses the beauty of Luo Fu in detail. Yuefu poems in Han dynasty are mostly narrated in the form of dialogue or monologue. Poetry skillfully uses dialogue to depict characters, which makes people feel alive and emotional, and makes people feel that they are human. For example, "Picking Weeds on the Mountain" is almost a question and answer between the abandoned wife and the dead husband, showing the kind character of the wife; There are also monologues throughout, such as the plight of orphans written in monologues in "The Journey of Orphans". Although the Han Yuefu is mainly realistic, there is no lack of romanticism. For example, the passion and extreme exaggeration of Regret for the Past shows the sincerity and enthusiasm of women for their lovers and makes no secret of their love; The crow's soul in Vu Thang attracts people. The rotten fish in "Dead Fish Weep across the River" can cry and write letters. There are also people who write about immortals, such as "Practice Time", which is about spiritual tour and spiritual rest, and the joy of getting closer to yourself and entrusting it to God, imagining that you can fly to heaven and become an immortal. These romantic imaginations, rich and peculiar fantasies, all show the romantic characteristics of Han Yuefu's poems. There are many even sentences in Yuefu poems in the Han Dynasty, such as "There are horns on the head, bright moon pearls in the ears, skirts on the bottom and purple roses on the top" in Sang Zhong. Repetition and harmony in phonology can also be a feature of Han Yuefu's poems. Such as "Jiangnan", "Jiangnan can pick lotus, lotus leaves are sweet! Fish are frolicking among the lotus leaves. Fish plays lotus leaf east, fish plays lotus leaf west, fish plays lotus leaf south and fish plays lotus leaf north ",which is about fish swimming under the lotus leaf and secretly writing about the happiness of lotus pickers." "This poem echoes before and after, with vivid images, harmonious phonology, vivid words, natural and fluent language and implicit artistic conception. .
Because Yuefu poems in the Han Dynasty are "from sadness to joy", there are narratives and lyricism in the narrative. Generally speaking, it is more detailed in narrative than lyric. For example, Peacock Flying Southeast, except for the lyrical ending, is mostly narrative. Pave the scene, write the middle process in detail, and write the beginning and end slightly. For example, the beginning and end of Peacock Flying Southeast is to write the middle in detail; Detailed description of the dress, but slightly written about the appearance and shape, such as the description of Liu Lanzhi's appearance in Peacock Flying Southeast and the rags in A Journey to the Orphan.
In addition, there are allegorical poems in Han Yuefu. Allegory poetry is also an important part of the narrative poetry of Han Yuefu, and the narrative in the form of fable has become the characteristic of two Han Yuefu poems. The satirical poems of Yuefu in the two Han Dynasties can be divided into two categories, one is the lyric poems of praising Luo Ziban under the guise of animals, and the other is the lyric poems of Wu Sheng and Yu Zhangxing. Another fable is the dialogue between plants and people. There are two roles in the poem. Song Zihou's "Dong Yao Yao" talks to a woman in Luoyang with a virtual peach and plum tree, telling the injustice of breaking branches and flowers, and complaining that human power made youth die young. Many of these fables have strange imaginations. Fish, birds, flowers and trees can also make people talk, and they are unexpected.
In the history of China's poetry, Yuefu poetry in Han Dynasty is the third important development stage after The Book of Songs and Songs of the South. It truly reflects the vast social life and people's thoughts and feelings in the Han Dynasty with its ingenious conception, superb narrative skills, flexible and diverse systems and realistic creative methods. The excellent tradition of realism in Han Yuefu has played an exemplary role for many poets in later generations, and its miscellaneous words have promoted the development of poetic style. Today, there are still many well-known poems sung by people, and the artistic charm of Han Yuefu will be enriched with the passage of time.