First, the introduction of narrative poetry
Narrative poetry is a kind of poetry theme. It depicts characters in the form of poems and expresses emotions by writing people's narratives. Compared with novels and plays, its plot is generally simple.
This genre contains stories, characters and other novel contents, and has the characteristics of lyric poetry. The plot is complete and concentrated, the characters are typical, poetic, concise, and the life scene is clear.
Second, China's narrative poems
Early narrative poems are ancient folk narrative poems in China, which are about historical or contemporary events. There are relatively complete storylines and characters.
In the Tang Dynasty, literati such as Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi also began to create a large number of narrative poems, which are different from ancient folk narrative poems and belong to literati narrative poems. Famous narrative poems in classical poetry include Mulan Poem, Peacock Flying Southeast, Long Song, Song of Eternal Sorrow and so on.
Classification of narrative poems:
First, the narrative category of creation
This kind of narrative poem came into being relatively early, and mostly takes the creation of the world, the origin of human beings, the origin of all natural things, the origin of nations and the creation of culture as the theme. It mainly describes the heroic achievements of the creator of the world in creating the world, creating human beings and all things in nature.
Second, the heroic narrative class
This kind of narrative poems can be divided into ancient heroic narrative poems and modern heroic narrative poems.
The first category is ancient heroic narrative poems, also known as "heroic epics". This kind of narrative poem is generally very long. Some are as many as several or dozens of masterpieces, and some are short stories with complete plots and self-contained systems. Ancient heroic narrative poems are generally believed to have originated in the late primitive society, the early slave society or the early feudal society.
The second category is modern heroic narrative poems. People and events in modern history are generally created on the basis of real people and events. Most of them were gradually developed on the basis of short songs and oral legends produced at that time or later.
Thirdly, the narrative of marriage and love.
It originated from a long-term class society and was a reflection of the marriage system and customs at that time. Generally speaking, there are few mythological factors in this narrative poem. Different from creation narrative poems and ancient heroic narrative poems, it does not reflect major events in tribal history. It mainly shows the love entanglement in personal life, the contradiction between personal reasonable demands and social system customs, and sometimes it also shows the people's ideals through the happy combination of young men and women.