What poem is New Yuefu?

The "new Yuefu" in the history of ancient literature, that is, "new Yuefu", is relative to the ancient Yuefu. It refers to a kind of Yuefu poem that uses new themes to write current events, and no longer takes whether it is enjoyable as the standard. The new Yuefu poetry originated from Du Fu, inherited by Yuan Jie and Gu Kuang, and strongly advocated by Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen. In the middle Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen advocated a poetry innovation movement centered on the creation of new Yuefu poems. And Zhu Zheqin's "New Yuefu" music album.

The so-called new Yuefu is relative to the ancient Yuefu. This concept was first put forward by Bai Juyi. He has compiled more than 50 poems, such as Beauty is Better than Happiness and Setting a Topic for Something, into New Yuefu. The new Yuefu has three characteristics: one is to use new questions. Since Jian 'an, most of the songs written by literati are based on current events and follow ancient topics, often with limited content and inconsistent topics. Bai Juyi writes current affairs with new topics, so it is also called "New Topic Yuefu". The second is to write current events. After Jian 'an, writers have their own innovative themes, but most of them have nothing to do with current affairs. There are both new themes and current events, Gu Du Fu. Bai Juyi followed the tradition and stabbed the reality with the new Yuefu. Third, it is not measured by whether you are happy or not. Many new Yuefu poems are to taste the "songs broadcast in the movement". Musically, it has the name of Yuefu, but in content, it directly inherits the realistic spirit of Han Yuefu and is a real Yuefu. The forerunner of the New Yuefu Movement was Du Fu, followed by Yuan Jie and Gu Kuang, and finally Zhang Ji and Wang Jianwei. During the period of "Bai Yuan", it clearly put forward a whole set of theories of "combining articles with the times, and combining songs and poems with phases". In addition, Yuan and Bai poems were the best in the world, and a large number of new Yuefu poems appeared, which had a great influence at that time, making this great literary movement a great success. "Biography of Teachers and Friends" contains: "Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, Zhang Ji and Wang Jianchuang are new Yuefu, and they are also their own." During Zhenyuan and Yuanhe years, the new Yuefu movement and the ancient prose movement of Han and Liu successively dominated the literary world and had the same social reasons.