It was formally established in 1 12 BC during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, collecting and sorting out Han folk music, arranging, adapting and creating music, singing and playing, etc. Han Yuefu refers to the poems adopted by Yuefu organs in Han Dynasty. These poems were originally circulated among the people and preserved through Yuefu. The Han Dynasty was called "Song Poetry" and the Wei and Jin Dynasties was called "Yuefu" or "Han Yuefu". Poems written by later scholars imitating this form are also called "Yuefu Poems".
Yuefu is an official position established by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Its duty is to collect folk songs or literati's poems for music, so as to prepare for the court's performance at sacrifices or banquets. The poems it collected were later called "Yuefu Poetry" or "Yuefu Poetry" for short. It is a new poetic style after The Book of Songs and Songs of the South.
Han Yuefu is another great collection of ancient folk songs after The Book of Songs. Different from The Book of Songs, it created a new style of poetic realism. Women's works play an important role in the folk songs of Han Yuefu. It uses popular language to construct works close to life, from miscellaneous words to five words, depicts characters in detail with narrative writing, shapes distinctive characters, completes the story, highlights ideological connotation and pays attention to describing typical details, which opens up a new stage in the development of narrative poetry, which is an important stage in the development of five-word poetry in the history of Chinese poetry. Han Yuefu has a very high position in the history of literature, which can keep pace with The Book of Songs and Songs of the South.
Shang Mo Sang and Peacock Flying Southeast are both folk songs of Han Yuefu, and Peacock Flying Southeast is the longest narrative poem in ancient China. Peacock Flying Southeast and Mulan Poetry are both called "Yuefu Shuangbi". Peacock Flying Southeast in the Han Dynasty, Mulan Poetry in the Northern Dynasty, and Wei Zhuang's Ode to Fu Qin in the Tang Dynasty are also called "Three Wonders of Yuefu". In addition, the phrase "Young people don't work hard, but the old people are sad" in the long song line is also a famous sentence that has been passed down through the ages.
The expansion and development of Yuefu in the Western Han Dynasty was in the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. The Book of Rites and Music in Han Dynasty said: "By the time Emperor Wu made a decision, Yuefu was established, reading poems at night, entrusted by Zhao, Dai, Qin and Chu. I thought that the master of the law would lead dozens of people to write poems and poems. Legally, he wrote an eight-tone song with 19 chapters. On the first day of the first month, people worship the hills with sweet springs, which makes 70 boys and girls faint. " During the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, the function of Yuefu was further strengthened. Yuefu not only organized literati to create songs and poems for the court, but also collected ballads from all over the country. Many folk songs are sung in Yuefu and handed down. The Yuefu poems created by literati are no longer limited to Song Like's banquet in Anshifang, but also sung during the festival, and the status of Yuefu poems is obviously improved. According to "Han Shu Guan Bai Gong Qing Biao", when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was in power, the Yuefu Order consisted of three officials. According to the History of Rites and Music in Han Dynasty, by the end of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, Yuefu had more than 800 employees and became a large-scale music institution. More than 100 years from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Cheng was the heyday of Yuefu. Emperor Ai ascended the throne, ordered the dismissal of Yuefu officials, greatly reduced Yuefu personnel, and placed the rest under the jurisdiction of the order. Since then, there has been no Yuefu organizational system in the Han Dynasty.
The organ in charge of music in the Eastern Han Dynasty also belonged to two systems. One is Taiyue Music Department, and the chief executive is Taiyue Order, which is equivalent to Taiyue Order in the Western Han Dynasty and belongs to Tai Changqing. One is the propaganda department of Huangmen, in charge of Cheng Hualing, belonging to Shaofu. The name of Huang Men's advocacy has existed since the Western Han Dynasty, and it has a very close relationship with Yuefu. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Huangmen Propaganda Department, which was in charge of Cheng Hualing, provided songs for the ministers who enjoyed the banquet, which actually played the role of Yuefu in the Western Han Dynasty. Yuefu poems in the Eastern Han Dynasty were mainly sung by Huangmen Propaganda Department, so they were preserved.