What impact did Han Yuefu folk songs have on later poetry creation?

The influence of Han Yuefu folk songs is also reflected in the creation of new poetry forms. As mentioned before, the main forms of Han Yuefu folk songs are miscellaneous and five-character. The miscellany style had not attracted the attention of literati at that time, but since Jian'an, its influence has become increasingly significant.

In terms of artistic techniques, especially in the writing techniques of narrative poems, the influence of Han Yuefu folk songs is also very significant. Such as the use of character dialogue or monologue, character psychological description and detailed characterization, simple and vivid language, etc., have become examples for all future generations of poets who reflect reality.

Han Yuefu folk songs not only have rich social content, but also have profound ideological significance. The reason why they are "feeling sad and joyful and inspired by events" means that the authors of Yuefu folk songs are oriented to real life and create based on the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys expressed by people in various encounters.

It truly and concretely reflects the social outlook and people's thoughts and feelings at that time, and is the inheritance and development of the fine tradition of realism in the Book of Songs. Han Yuefu folk songs inherited and developed the fine tradition of realism in Zhou Dynasty folk songs. It reflected the social life and people's thoughts and feelings more extensively and profoundly at that time, and also had a more specific and direct impact on the poetry of future generations.

Many works play an exemplary role. This influence is firstly reflected in its realist spirit of "feeling sorrow and joy, and responding to events". This spirit runs through the history of poetry from Jian'an to the Tang Dynasty like a red thread, forming a realist tradition with Yuefu as the system.

Extended information:

The Western Han Dynasty set up a Yuefu to control the music of the court and court. The poems collected and composed by Yuefu were called "Yuefu". A considerable part of Yuefu poems are collected from the folk, and they are easy to understand, reflect reality and can be enjoyed. Later, literati also imitated Yuefu poems. In the Tang Dynasty, Yuefu poems before the Southern and Northern Dynasties were collectively called ancient Yuefu.

The so-called new Yuefu is relative to the ancient Yuefu. This concept was first proposed by Bai Juyi. He once compiled more than 50 poems that were "Beautiful Ci Bixing" and "Tied Based on Events" that he wrote when he was Zuo Shiyi into "New Yuefu".

The spirit of the New Yuefu Movement was inherited by the late Tang poets Pi Rixiu, Nie Yizhong and Du Xunhe. Pi Rixiu's "Ten Poems of Zhengyuefu" and "Three Shame Poems", Nie Yizhong's "The Young Master's Journey", and Du Xunhe's "The Widow in the Mountains" and "The Old Man in the Village After the Rebellion" profoundly reveal the rule of the late Tang Dynasty. The brutality and corruption of the rebels and the social reality before and after the Peasant War in the late Tang Dynasty.

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