The first narrative poem in the history of China literature is Peacock Flying Southeast. 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".
Synopsis of story:
The story took place in the Jian 'an period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Liu Lanzhi, a young girl, has been learning embroidery since she was a child. She is good at playing the piano and reciting poems. /kloc-married Jiao Zhongqing at the age of 0/7. She worked hard day and night and did housework diligently, but her mother-in-law could not tolerate her. So, she wrote to her husband who was a small official in Lujiang County and told her unbearable suffering. Zhong Qing came back to plead for his wife, but his mother scolded him and asked him to divorce his wife and marry another bride. Zhong Qing knelt down and said, "If you send this girl today, you can't remarry for life."
Mother was furious. Because she still wanted to get back to the county government, Zhong Qing had to let her wife go back to her family first and take refuge temporarily. Lan Zhi naturally understood that such a farewell was tantamount to giving up, and it was difficult to see you again in the future, so she left her usual sachets, dowry and other things to Zhong Qing as a souvenir.
Poetry in the Han Dynasty, China's poetry creation lasted about 400 years from the early years of the Western Han Dynasty to the late years of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Including the creation of literati and folk songs, and the literati's five-character poems achieved the highest results in Yuefu in the late Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Specific introduction:
1, Han Yuefu folk songs have a wide range of themes and rich contents. Some of these poems exposed the extravagance and cruelty of bureaucrats and nobles, reflected the pain of working people's lives, showed the sharp class opposition in Han society, and conveyed the angry and rebellious voice of the oppressed people.
In terms of art, most of the folk songs in Han Yuefu are narrative, with strong stories and vivid characters, such as A Journey to the Orphan, Mulberry in Shang Mo and Peacock Flying Southeast. The language is concise, and there is nothing to carve, such as Jiangnan; The sentence pattern is flexible and diverse, and its greatest contribution is to create and complete the form of five-character poems, which not only affects the creation of five-character poems by scholars in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but also directly lays the foundation for the prosperity of Jian 'an poems.
2. Compared with Yuefu folk songs in Han Dynasty, few scholars in Han Dynasty wrote poems. Scholars' poems in the Western Han Dynasty mainly include Chu Ci, represented by Liu Bang's Songs of the Wind, and traditional and elegant four-character poems, represented by Wei Meng's Poems of Irony.
It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty, under the influence of Yuefu folk songs in the Han Dynasty, that literati's five-character poems began to appear. Ban Gu's Ode to History is the first five-character poem written by a scholar. Since then, literati's five-character poems have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, such as Zhang Heng's Homophony Song, Qin Jia's Poem for a Daughter, and Zhao Yi's Poem of Being Sick and Sleeping in the World.