Feelings of sorrow and music, inspired by events - Yuefu Poetry of the Two Han Dynasties
Yuefu Poetry of the Two Han Dynasties is another great collection of ancient folk songs after the "Book of Songs" and "Chu Ci". As a new poetic style, it widely and profoundly reflected the hardship and pain of the daily life of the people at the bottom of the society at that time. It had a strong flavor of life, expressed intense and explicit emotions, and showed strong vitality. From a literary point of view, the Yuefu poems of the Han Dynasty have become a new model for ancient Chinese poetry with their unique propositions, superb narrative skills, and flexible and diverse systems, laying the foundation for ancient Chinese five-character poems and narrative poems. His representative works are "Peacock Flies Southeast" and "Mulan Ci".