The influence of the new Yuefu movement

The poetry movement of writing current events and social life in popular Yuefu style took place in Tang Chaoyuan and 806-820 AD. The authors of Yuefu poems are mainly Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, Li Shen and Zhang Jihe Wang Jian. The new Yuefu movement was the product of a specific era in Zhenyuan, Yuanhe years. At this time, the Anshi Rebellion had passed and the Tang Dynasty was in decline. On the one hand, feudalism in the buffer region, the autocratic power of eunuchs, heavy taxes, the disparity between the rich and the poor, the intrusion of barbarians and frequent wars further exposed the contradictions in all aspects of social life; On the other hand, some people of insight in the ruling class have a clearer understanding of the disadvantages of reality. They hoped that by improving politics and easing social contradictions, the Tang Dynasty would flourish. This situation was reflected in the literary and poetic circles at that time, and the ancient prose movement advocated by Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan and the new Yuefu movement advocated by Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen appeared respectively. The poetry creation of the New Yuefu Movement practiced the above theoretical proposition. The Yuefu poems of Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, Zhang Ji and Jincon reflect the extremely broad social life in the middle Tang Dynasty, reveal the social contradictions that existed at that time from various aspects, and put forward extremely acute social problems.