Characteristics (Language and Structure) of Yuefu Poetry in Han Dynasty

Han Yuefu refers to the poems collected by Yuefu officials in the Han Dynasty. Some poems under the control of Han Yuefu are small temple songs that the rulers sacrificed to their ancestors' gods, and their nature is the same as the "ode" in the Book of Songs. The other part is a collection of folk music with no name, which is called Yuefu folk songs internationally. "History of Han Art and Literature" "There are generations, Zhao, Qin and Chu, all of whom are sad and happy, and they can also observe customs and know thick clouds". It can be seen that these works are the essence of Yuefu in Han Dynasty. Edited by Guo Maoqian in Song Dynasty. It is the most complete collection of Yuefu poems from Luohan to the Five Dynasties. There are more than 40 folk songs in Yuefu, most of which are works of the Eastern Han Dynasty, reflecting the social reality and people's life at that time and expressing love and hate with sharp words.

Han Yuefu is another great collection of ancient folk songs after The Book of Songs. Different from romanticism in The Book of Songs, it created a new style of poetic realism. In Han Yuefu folk songs, women's works occupy an important position. It uses popular language to construct works close to life, and gradually changes from miscellaneous words to five words. It depicts characters carefully with oblique pen, and creates characters with distinct personality and complete story, and can highlight ideological connotation and focus on depicting typical details.

Characteristics of cultural integration between north and south in folk songs of Han Yuefu;

Creative techniques: realism with sadness and joy as the keynote; Feelings: simple, euphemistic and lingering. Methods of expression: narration, lyricism and the combination of narration and expression; Language: Spoken, local and decorated, such as Shang Mo Sang.

The greatest achievement of folk song art in Han Yuefu is narration (realism and criticism);

(1) The narrative description is meticulous and vivid, and he is good at grasping typical details to express scenes and characters' thoughts; Good at imitating the tone and expression of characters, making the characters vivid and sensible, and making readers immersive. It has a strong artistic appeal, so things are very strong. )

Peacock flies southeast-an outstanding narrative poem, which marks the peak of narrative poetry in Han Yuefu (also a folk five-character poem)

(2) Freedom of form: there are various sentence patterns, mainly five words, but also four words. Judging from the development of poetry, Han Yuefu is a transitional stage from four words in pre-Qin to five or seven words. The mature five-character style of Han Yuefu greatly promoted the creation of literati's five-character style.

(3) Language also has the characteristics of folk songs in The Book of Songs-simple, vivid, colloquial, vivid and full of life.

(4) Most of them are realistic techniques, which are fully reflected in the content, and many of them have a strong romantic color, reflecting the combination of realism and romanticism.