What are the characteristics of Yuefu poetry?

Linguistic and formal characteristics of Yuefu poems: First of all, the language used in Yuefu poems is simple and easy to understand, mostly spoken, cordial and simple. Secondly, rhymes are flexible and diverse. Yuefu folk songs have rhyming sentences and rhyming sentences; There are three characters, four characters, five characters, six characters and miscellaneous characters in form. Then, portray the characters in the form of dialogues or monologues. Finally, romanticism is strong.

The influence of Yuefu poetry

Han Yuefu folk songs inherited the realistic spirit of The Book of Songs.

The styles of Yuefu poems in Han Dynasty are diverse, including fresh and clear, affectionate and euphemistic, and generous and sad, but all of them are simple and natural. The so-called simplicity and naturalness is manifested in the language of poetry. It has no words and no embellishment, so it is simple and sincere, unique in ancient and modern times. Later poets were mostly influenced by Han Yuefu.

Han Yuefu is mainly composed of five-character miscellaneous poems. Miscellaneous poems flourished after Jian 'an, and Cao Cao, Cao Pi and Li Bai all originated from Yuefu folk songs. Yuefu had a great influence on five-character poems, and there were many imitators in the Eastern Han Dynasty. By the time of Jian 'an, the situation of "five words soaring" had appeared, replacing the four words in the Book of Songs and the "Sao Style" in the Songs of the South, becoming a main form of poetry.