The development of Han Fu can be roughly divided into several stages. What are the characteristics of creative forms in each stage?

The first stage: Ci and Fu in the early Han Dynasty, which is the aftermath of Chu Ci and the preparation period for the development of Han Fu. Most of the Fu works in the early Han Dynasty are similar to Qu Yuan's Sao style, focusing on expressing a sad feeling and using the modal particle "Xi", so the Fu works in the early Han Dynasty inherited Qu Yuan's Sao style from form to content. However, in the early Han Dynasty, the prose style began to be prosaic in form, and at the same time, a large number of four-sentence styles were used, showing the transition from prose style to Han style.

The second stage: from the mid-Western Han Dynasty to the early Eastern Han Dynasty, prose fu was the heyday of Han Fu, and the main content of Han Fu, especially Ci Fu, was to boast about court life for emperors to enjoy. They often show off hunting, gardens, Kyoto and palaces in order to praise and brag about their vast territory, wealth and abundant manpower, and exaggerate them with a lot of conjunctions, antitheses and sentence patterns to increase the momentum and rhetoric of their articles.

The third stage: lyric poetry in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, a turning point in the development of Ci and Fu in the Han Dynasty. The characteristic of lyric Xiao Fu is realism; Lyric; The length is short and lively; Languages tend to be parallel.