Judging from its content, it can be roughly divided into three categories:
First, the ode made by noble literati.
Poetry of suburban temples: used to worship heaven and earth, ancestral halls, Tang Ming and the country. Today, there are songs of worship in the suburbs and songs of Anshifang.
Yanshe Pavilion: used for banquets in the imperial court.
Dance lyrics: elegant dance, miscellaneous dance. Elegant dance is used in suburban temples and banquets; Miscellaneous dances are used for banquets.
Second, military music
Advocating lyrics: it is military music, and the flute is short and the drum is short.
Cross-wind lyrics: it is military music riding on a horse and playing drums.
Third, folk songs.
Harmony Poems: Street Ballads in Han Dynasty. At first, it was just recited at will. The orchestra that is gradually being merged into one is a harmony song.
Lyrics of Qing merchants: originated from three tones, and their contents mostly reflected the life, thoughts and feelings of the people at that time.
Miscellaneous songs and words: there are poems that write the truth, express feelings, tell stories about banquets and travels, and express grievances and struggles. They are called miscellaneous songs because of the old Buddha or foreigners.
Theme of Yuefu Poems in Han Dynasty
First, it reflects the pain of war.
The Battle of the South of the City profoundly reflects the painful war life of the people in the Han Dynasty. The first poem describes the desolation and horror of fierce fighting, and the second one describes that civilians abandoned their fields for the sake of war, thus complaining. It is a realistic poem that exposes the bitter days of war. Another example is Dongguang, which reflects the sadness and resentment of the sergeant when Emperor Wu conquered South Vietnam. "Cangwu is full of rotten millet, which is not conducive to stores. The armies are falling, and they are sad to leave early. " It is also an anti-war work.
Second, reflect the pain of the corvee.
The poem "The Fifteenth Conscription" describes a soldier who fought abroad for sixty-five years. At the age of eighty, he returned to his hometown and his house was destroyed. He became a nest of birds and animals, dead relatives and friends, nothing, hungry. So he picked wild sunflower grass and cooked it into soup, but how to eat it in this case? He went out and looked at the horizon, and his tears kept flowing down. In poetry, for that kind of,
Third, reflect poverty.
The Journey of the Sick Woman describes the tragic scene of a poor family. The poem describes a sick woman dying, her husband crying to relatives and friends, and an orphan crying for his mother in an empty house. I'm really touched and sad. A Journey to the Orphans describes the abuse suffered by orphans. His brother and sister-in-law treated him as a slave and enemy, tortured him as much as possible and wanted to kill him.
A trip to the East Gate describes a poor old man who was forced by poverty, took risks and rose up against it. It reflects that the life of a traveler is hard and it is not easy to return home. Therefore, this kind of journey is full of impassioned voices, showing strong grief and indignation, such as "A trip to the Great Wall Cave to drink horses": "It is unthinkable to travel far, but I have dreamed of it in the past. Dreaming of being by my side, I suddenly felt in a foreign land. Different counties in different places, turning around and not seeing ",is to write a wife who is running around in order to find a good husband." "
Fourth, the theme of love.
"Thinking" wrote that when a woman knew that her lover had his heart, she hated destroying the gift she was about to give him at once, which showed her determination to make a clean break. However, when she recalled that her life in the tryst was sweet, she felt that she could not make a clean break, showing the author's painful contradiction.
Evil expresses a woman's deep confession to her lover and shows her immortal love. She expresses her passion like fire: love will never end except the collapse of mountains and rivers and the destruction of heaven and earth!
Pulling weeds on the mountain tells a short question and answer when an abandoned wife and her dead husband meet by chance. Instead of writing about the sadness of abandoning his wife, write about the memory of his deceased husband, which shows that the abandoned son of the hostess's family is innocent. Although her work is better than others and her skin color is not worse than others, she still can't help being abandoned. Her misfortune is only because men like the new and hate the old.
"Peacock Flying Southeast" exposes the evils of feudal ethics through the marriage tragedy of Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi, and at the same time enthusiastically praises their faithful love and unyielding spirit of death.
"Cockcrow", "Meet each other" and "A trip to Chang 'an with a narrow evil spirit" all describe the luxury enjoyment of wealthy families at that time, with gold as the door and white jade as the hall, where wine and wine are enjoyed, the atrium is brightly lit, and rare birds are listed behind the house. Everyone is an official, the most expensive 2000 stone. Young women have nothing to do, they just play the violin. "Shang Mo Sang" tells the story of a satrap who insulted a mulberry-picking woman and was severely reprimanded. This poem exposes the dissoluteness and shamelessness of officials, and at the same time creates a loyal, brave and beautiful female image of Qin Luofu.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) People's working life.
In the Han Yuefu, many of them showed the working life of the people at that time. For example, "Picking Lotus in Jiangnan" is a ballad sung by young men and women in Jiangnan when picking lotus. They sang while working, showing the happiness of rural men and women's collective working life and the beautiful natural scenery in the south of the Yangtze River.
Six, drinking and seeking immortality, life is impermanent.
There is also the idea of seeking immortality through wine in Yuefu poems of Han Dynasty, which is a reflection of intellectuals' thoughts influenced by immortal thoughts. Such as Good Deeds, Ximenxing and Wang Ziqiao are all works of this kind. As for the works with the theme of impermanence of life, such as Poems of Complaints and Driving East Gate, the theme is to lament impermanence of life and advocate "eat, drink, and wander freely" to vent decadent and declining emotions.