Mulan Poetry is a folk song in the Northern Dynasties, and Guo Maoqian's Yuefu Poetry in the Song Dynasty is included in the Song of Cross Blowing.
This is a long narrative poem, which tells the story of a girl named Mulan disguised as a man, joined the army for her father, made meritorious deeds on the battlefield, refused to be an official after returning to North Korea, and just wanted to go home and reunite. She warmly praised the woman's brave and kind qualities, her enthusiasm for defending the country and her fearless spirit.
The whole poem conceives the legendary story of Mulan with "Mulan is a girl", which is full of romance; The details are cleverly arranged. Although it is about war, it is more about life scenes and children's modality, full of life breath. Describing the characters' modality, using questions and answers, parallelism, antithesis, intertextuality and other methods to describe the characters' psychology is vivid and meticulous, which makes the works have strong artistic appeal.
Peacock Flying Southeast is the first narrative poem in the history of China literature, and it is also the pinnacle of Yuefu poetry. Later generations praised it and Mulan poems of the Northern Dynasties as "double walls of Yuefu".
Peacock Flying Southeast is based on a marriage tragedy that happened in Lujiang County (now in Huaining and Qianshan, Anhui Province) during the reign of Emperor Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The original title was "Ancient Poems for Jiao Zhongqing's Wife", and it was named because the first sentence of the poem was "Peacock flies southeast and wanders in five miles".
As the longest narrative poem in ancient history, "Peacock Flying Southeast" is concise, ingenious and vivid, which not only shapes the image of Liu Jiao and his wife as soul mates and unyielding, but also vividly depicts Jiao Mu's stubbornness and Liu Xiong's insolence.
At last, the article conceives the myth that both Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing became peacocks after their death, and places people's strong desire to pursue love freedom and a happy life.
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Qin has Yuefu and is an official of Shaofu. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Yuefu Order was established, which was in charge of the ancestral temple sacrifice. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established Yuefu, made elegant music and collected folk songs. Yuefu poems in Han Dynasty are mainly preserved in seven of the twelve categories of Guo Maoqian's Yuefu poems in Song Dynasty. Among them, there are elegant music, 18 songs of worship, and folk songs mainly include harmony songs, dance songs and miscellaneous songs. Yuefu folk songs in Han Dynasty are rich in content, reflecting the broad social life at that time, and are vigorous and fresh in art. Their poetic forms of five-character, seven-character and miscellaneous words are the pioneers of literati's five-character and seven-character poems, and they are precious wealth in the history of Chinese poetry.