Han Yuefu is another great collection of ancient folk songs after The Book of Songs, which is different from the romanticism in The Book of Songs and opens a new style of poetic realism. Women's works play an important role in the folk songs of Han Yuefu. It uses popular language to construct works that are close to life, from miscellaneous words to five words, and uses narrative writing to describe the characters in detail, create distinctive characters and complete the story. It can highlight the ideological connotation, pay attention to describing typical details, and open up a new stage in the development of narrative poetry, which is an important stage in the development of five-character poetry in the history of China's poetry.
There are a lot of love poems in The Book of Songs and Han Yuefu, so what are the similarities and differences between their descriptions of love in two different times? First, let's look at the differences. First, the description of love in The Book of Songs takes lyric as the mainstream, and when expressing personal feelings, it is generally restrained, so it appears peaceful. The process is euphemistic and tortuous Therefore, The Book of Songs is characterized by its lyrical detail and profound meaning.
The biggest and most basic artistic feature of folk songs in Han Yuefu is narrative. This feature is determined by the content of "karma". Although we can already see some works with narrative elements in the Book of Songs, such as Meng and Meng. But it is still expressed through the protagonist's talk, and it is still in the form of lyricism, lacking complete characters and plots, and lacking a centralized description of a central event. However, in the folk songs of Han Yuefu, there are works whose stories are told by a third party, and there are characters with certain personality and complete plots, such as Sang Shang and Walking to the East Gate, especially Peacock Flying Southeast. The story and drama of poetry are greatly enhanced than the works in The Book of Songs. Secondly, the Book of Songs uses a lot of expressive techniques of Fu, Bi and Xing. For example, Nan Zhou Guan Ju and Feng Wei's altar are both popular styles: the former is popular with a virgin bird's "Guan Guan" cry, which reminds people of the love between men and women; The latter began with the "Kan Kan" logging sound of slaves, and was linked with the unearned gains of the slave owners. Zhuang Jiang's beauty is described in Feng Wei's Tale of Man, but in it, "soft hands, fat skin, toothed rhinoceros and a cicada's head flying with a moth's eyebrow" vividly shows the natural beauty of Zhuang Jiang. But this technique was hardly used in the Han Yuefu. 3. The Book of Songs is mainly composed of four words and miscellaneous words. Structurally, the form of repeated chapters and sentences is often adopted to enhance the lyrical effect. For example, in the first chapter of The Book of Songs, Guan Ju and Guan Guan (overlapping words) describe the sound of waterfowl, graceful (overlapping rhyme) represents the beauty of ladies, staggered (double voice) describes the state of aquatic plants, and tossing and turning (overlapping rhyme) describes the situation of being unable to sleep because of lovesickness. On the other hand, the forms of Han Yuefu are free and diverse, with no fixed rules and syntax, and the length is arbitrary.