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Peacock Flying Southeast is the first narrative poem in the history of China literature, and it is also the pinnacle of Yuefu poetry. Later generations praised it and Mulan poems of the Northern Dynasties as "double walls of Yuefu".

Peacock Flying Southeast is based on a marriage tragedy that happened in Lujiang County (now in Huaining and Qianshan, Anhui Province) during the reign of Emperor Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The original title was "Ancient Poems for Jiao Zhongqing's Wife", and it was named because the first sentence of the poem was "Peacock flies southeast and wanders in five miles".

The whole poem has more than 350 sentences, 1700 words. It mainly tells the story of being forced to separate and both committed suicide, accusing the ruthlessness of feudal ethics and praising Jiao and Liu's sincere feelings and rebellious spirit.

Expand the social environment in which peacocks fly southeast.

The story happened in "Jian 'an at the end of Han Dynasty". At that time, the background was that during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, "a hundred schools of thought were ousted and Confucianism was the only one", and a set of Confucian ethics gradually occupied a dominant position and developed to a quite complete and strict degree. In terms of the marriage system, there are rules and regulations such as "seven out" and "parents are the whole world". "All parents in the world" is the main cause of Liu Jiao's tragedy.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Peacock Flying Southeast (Poem by Han Yuefu)