The folk songs in Han Yuefu use vivid spoken language, which is cordial and simple, narrative and lyrical, and the feelings are really touching. For example, Journey to the Orphan is about orphans being abused by their brothers and sisters-in-law. Although the poems are uneven, the feelings and circumstances of the orphans are vivid. The sentence length of poetry varies from two words to eight words, from neat seven-character poems to complicated miscellaneous poems. Yuefu folk songs in Han Dynasty have no fixed rules and syntax, and their length is arbitrary, scattered and informal, flexible and free. If there are miscellaneous words, the syntax is free and changeable, and the whole dispersion is not limited: for example, the upward slope and the children's song "Up slope!" I want to know you, and I will live long. There are no graves in the mountains, rivers are inexhaustible, lightning in winter shakes rain and snow in summer, and heaven and earth are in harmony, so I dare to be with you. " There are also two, three, four, five, six and seven words, which are extremely free to change. There are many complete five-character poems in Han Yuefu, such as Picking Lotus in the South of the Yangtze River and Peacock Flying Southeast, which have one syllable more than the four-character poems, adapted to the development of social language at that time and enhanced the expressive force of poems. There are both lengths, the longest is more than 350 sentences, and the shortest is a few. The length of folk songs in Han Yuefu is different. The longest is more than 350 sentences such as Peacock Flying Southeast, and the shortest is only four sentences such as Zaqu and Dead Fish Weeping across the River. There are only seven sentences in "Picking Lotus in Jiangnan".
Flexible rhyme
The rhyme of Han Yuefu folk songs is free and flexible. There are rhymes, such as "Ping Ling East": "Ping Ling East, pine and cypress are green, I don't know who robbed Gong Yi", "My heart is so tired, my blood is leaking, and I tell my family to sell yellow calves" is it; There are rhyming sentences, such as "East Gate", "Yan Ge" and "Fu Liangyin". There are also rhymes between two sentences and three sentences, such as "the southeast corner of sunrise" and "calling yourself Luo Fu" in Shang Mo Sang rhymes with two sentences, and "According to my Qin family" and "Guizhi as a cage hook" rhymes with five sentences. This shows the diversity of rhymes.
3. Narration in the form of dialogue or monologue
Yuefu poems in the Han Dynasty ingeniously cast dialogues to depict characters, which are full of sound and emotion, making people feel like hearing their voices and seeing their people. For example, "Picking Weeds on the Mountain" even consists almost entirely of questions and answers from the abandoned wife and her dead husband, which shows the kind character of her wife. There are also monologues throughout, such as the plight of orphans written in monologues in "The Journey of Orphans".
4. Romantic color
Although the folk songs of Han Yuefu mostly express reality, many works also use romanticism. For example, Shangxie is as passionate and highly exaggerated as a flash flood; The crow's soul in Vu Thang attracts people. The rotten fish in "Dead Fish Cry Over the River" can cry and write letters. These rich and peculiar fantasies show the characteristics of romanticism.
5. Even sentences
Even sentences can also be said to be the characteristics of Han Yuefu in all aspects, such as: "There is a bun on the head and a bright moon in the ear." It means "Qi is the lower skirt and Zi Luo is the upper skirt".
6. Cycle, harmony and rhyme
There were many beautiful poems in the folk songs of that day, such as "Picking Lotus in the South of the Yangtze River": "Picking Lotus in the South of the Yangtze River, Hetian Tian brings lotus leaves, and fish play 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. " This poem echoes back and forth, with vivid image, harmonious rhyme and lively words, which is the true nature of folk songs.