Yuefu combination is the perfect combination of poetry and music, and it is a kind of musical poetry. The closest to the Tang Dynasty and the most comprehensive collection is the "Collection of Yuefu Poems" written by Guo Maoqian of the Song Dynasty. This magnificent collection contains about 560 works before the Five Dynasties, of which more than 290 were from the Tang Dynasty alone, accounting for half of them. many.
As for the number of works, there are only more works from the Tang Dynasty. Judging from the history of the development of music and poetry, the relationship between the two becomes more complicated in later stages. However, when Guo Maoqian compiled the "Collection of Yuefu Poems", he mainly classified and organized it in the form of music tunes. He divided the works included in the "Collection of Yuefu Poems" into twelve categories according to different types of music and different characteristics of the times. . Among them, only "Yanshe Song Ci" and "Jiao Temple Song Ci" do not have "Zhang Wang Yuefu". Among the remaining ten categories, each category has works by "Zhang Wang Yuefu". Among them, Wang Jian Yuefu There are as many as 36 works. In the entire "Collection of Yuefu Poems", "Zhang Wang Yuefu" accounts for the largest number of Yuefu works in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, it is completely feasible to regard "Zhang Wang Yuefu" as a representative of Yuefu works in the Tang Dynasty or even the mid-Tang Dynasty. .
The art of poetry emphasizes that "sound is the body of music, and poetry is the heart of music." This is a discussion from the perspective of the integration of poetry and music. If the performer wants to express perfect music, he must adjust the instrument well, and if the literati wants to express the perfect music, he must use standardized writing to compose poetry. The ancients called the words of music poetry, and poetry Claimed to be a song. In all these relationships, sound is the common medium of poetry and music. Poetry is expressed in language, while music is expressed in sound, but sound is also a component of language. Poetry and music have one thing in common, which is a distinct sense of rhythm. As time goes by, the music in the poems can no longer be heard, but the recorded words are like fossils that make people truly feel his presence. Through the changes in sentence patterns, length of arias and rhymes in the poem, people seem to be able to hear the ups and downs and gentleness of the music back then. Therefore, when studying "Zhang Wang Yuefu", we can completely explore the musical form in reverse from the perspective of language form. The seven-character works exceed more than half of the total number of "Zhang Wang Yuefu" works included in the "Yuefu Poetry Collection". Therefore, "Zhangwang Yuefu" is mainly composed of seven-character music. In addition, the definite poem title is a core specification of Yuefu, which is also an important feature of Yuefu as a literary style. Moreover, there must be an inherent connection between this kind of poem title and the music. This kind of music is associated with a certain emotional content and has unique structural stability characteristics. Guo Maoqian also clearly noticed this, so when he compiled the "Collection of Yuefu Poems", he deliberately included works with the same title of poems or works related to inheritance as much as possible to facilitate classification. Although there are no clear boundaries, looking at the classification of his works, they are all distinguished by the time when the poem title was produced. "Collection of Yuefu Poems" mainly divides Yuefu poems into two major categories. One is the poem titles before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, totaling ten categories, called "Old Title Yuefu" or "Ancient Title Yuefu"; the other is the works of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. , mainly including "New Yuefu Ci" and "Modern Music Ci", which are the so-called "New Yuefu Ci". Among the "Zhangwang Yuefu", "Jiuti Yuefu" accounts for the majority, so "Zhangwang Yuefu" is the representative of Jiuti Yuefu.