The characteristics of Han Yuefu poetry are as follows:
1. The language is simple and natural
1. Han Yuefu folk songs mostly use vivid spoken language, are cordial and simple, and combine narrative with lyricism. , the emotion is really touching. For example, "Orphan's Journey" describes an orphan who is abused by his brother and sister-in-law. Although the poems are uneven, the emotion and situation are consistent, and the orphan's words and scheming are vividly reflected in the writing. The poems vary in sentence length, ranging from two to eight words. There are neat poems with neat sentences, and there are also intricate poems with mixed words.
2. Han Yuefu folk songs have no fixed composition and syntax. They are of arbitrary length, informal and flexible. Some inherit the four-character style of "The Book of Songs"; some are in miscellaneous words, with free and changeable syntax and informality. There are also two, three, four, five, six, and seven characters, and the changes are extremely free. There are also many complete five-character poems in Han Yuefu, which have one more syllable than four-character poems. They adapted to the development of social language at that time and enhanced the expressive power of poetry.
They vary in length. The longest one is more than 350 sentences, and the short one is several sentences. Han Yuefu folk songs are both long and short in length. The longest one is like "The Peacock Flies Southeast", which is more than 350 lines long. The short ones are like "Miscellaneous Qu: Dry Fish Crossing the River Crying" which only has four lines; "Lotus Can Be Picked in the South of the Yangtze River" 》There are only seven sentences.
2. Romanticism
Although Han Yuefu folk songs mostly describe reality, there are also many works that use romanticism. For example, "Shangxie" is as passionate and highly exaggerated as a flash flood; the soul of a crow in "Wu Sheng" appeals to people; the rotten fish in "Dry Fish Crossing the River Crying" can cry and write letters, etc. These rich and peculiar fantasies show the characteristics of romanticism.
3. Round and round, harmonious phonology
There are many beautiful poems in the folk songs of that day, such as "Lotus can be picked in the south of the Yangtze River": "Lotus can be picked in the south of the Yangtze River, and the lotus leaves are in the fields. , The fish plays among the lotus leaves. The fish plays with the lotus leaves to the east, the fish plays with the lotus leaves to the west, the fish plays with the lotus leaves to the south, the fish plays with the lotus leaves to the north." This poem is full of vivid images, harmonious rhymes, and lively words, which is exactly what a folk song is. true color.
4. Narrate in the form of dialogue or monologue
Han Yuefu poetry cleverly casts dialogue to describe the characters, and the voices and emotions are so vivid that it makes people feel like hearing their voices and seeing their people. For example, "Going to the Mountain to Collect Weeds" is almost entirely composed of questions and answers between an abandoned wife and her old husband, showing the wife's kind character. There are also monologues used throughout the novel, such as "Orphan's Journey" in which a monologue is used to describe the pain of orphans.
5. Parallel Sentences
Parallel Parallel Sentences can also be said to be the characteristics of Han Dynasty Yuefu in terms of form and color, such as in "Mo Shang Sang": "The Japanese are wearing buns on their heads." , The bright moon pearl in the ear. The xiangqi is the lower skirt, and the purple qi is the upper skirt."
6. Flexible rhymes
The rhymes of Han Yuefu folk songs are free and flexible. Some sentences rhyme; some every other sentence rhymes, such as "Dongmen Xing", "Yan Ge Xing", "Liang Fu Yin", etc.; there are also two or three sentences that rhyme, such as "Sunrise" in "Mo Shang Sang" "Southeast corner" and "named myself Luofu" are two lines apart, and "Zhao my Qin family building" and "Guizhi is a cage hook" are five lines apart. This all shows the variety of rhymes.
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