What genre does Yuefu poetry belong to?

Yuefu poetry collection does not belong to any genre, it is a collection of many kinds of poems, including many kinds of poetry genres.

"Yuefu" is an official unit specialized in making music in the Han Dynasty, which is responsible for collecting folk songs or literati poems for music. Yuefu Poetry Collection is an anthology of these ballads and poems.

Yuefu poetry collection contains various genres, including folk songs, quatrains, metrical poems and so on, among which folk songs are the most. After sorting out these songs, most of them appear in the form of poems, from miscellaneous words to five or seven sentences, from lyric poems to narrative poems.

Generally speaking, the poems and songs included in Yuefu poetry anthology are free in form and diverse in genre, and there is no fixed and unified requirement. According to the statistics of frequency of appearance, there are more five-character poems and narrative poems. Of course, there are no words in it, and the words appeared later.