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 close to life, from miscellaneous words to five words, depicts characters carefully with oblique pens, shapes distinctive characters and has a complete story. It can highlight the ideological connotation, pay attention to describing typical details, and open up a new stage of the development of the seven-character poem, which is an important stage in the history of China's poetry. Lying is similar to lyre and harp, but it has quality. It prevailed from Han Dynasty to Sui and Tang Dynasties, but it was lost after Song Dynasty.
In ancient royal music, the harp is indispensable and one of the main musical instruments in performance. Because it has a string array, it can not only play melody, but also play chords, which is better than other instruments in both solo and accompaniment.
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the State of Chu was already lying on the harp. In the Han Dynasty, the couch, as a representative instrument of "China Zheng Sheng", was included in Shangqingle. At that time, there were five strings and more than ten columns, with bamboo as the groove and water as the play. It is not only popular in Central Plains and South China, but also spread to Northeast China and North Korea. This musical instrument was very popular in the Han Dynasty and was often used in poetry. For example, Han Yuefu wrote "An Ancient Poetry as a Wife", which includes "weaving thirteen skills, cutting fourteen skills, playing fifteen skills and reciting sixteen skills".
"Historical Records": "So I went to Senegal to pray for Taiyi and Hou Di, and began to write songs with music and dance, and made 25 strings by myself, waiting for the harp, and from then on." Du You's Tong Dian in the Tang Dynasty recorded that the music "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered the musicians to wait for the tune, making the hall too one." Or shrouded in clouds. Its sound should be a festival called Kanhou. ..... As the old saying goes, one should follow the piano department. Today, according to its shape, it is like a small instrument, with seven strings, which can be plucked, like a pipa. " It is a kind of lyre, similar to lyre, but its long * * * singing speaker panel has the taste of pipa, which is the main difference between lyre and lyre in shape. The musical instrument played by Koguryo murals in Ji 'an, Liaoning (now Ji 'an, Jilin) is Lie.
Wozou was used in Korean music in Sui and Tang Dynasties, but it was gradually lost in China and later in Song Dynasty. However, it was handed down in North Korea, and after several generations of inheritance and improvement, it became today's Xuanqin. In Japan, it was introduced from the then Baekje country (both Korea and Baekje were ancient Korean names), and it was called Baekje.
Han Yuefu was originally the official department of collecting poems and making music in the early Han Dynasty, and later it specifically referred to Yuefu poems in the Han Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty, there was an official of Yuefu, and there was probably Yuefu at that time. During Liang Wudi's period, Yuefu was expanded to become a special official position, in charge of music during suburban sacrifices, itineraries, court meetings and banquets, and was also responsible for collecting folk songs for rulers to observe customs and habits and understand the thickness of people's feelings. These ballads and other poems written by Yuefu are called Yuefu poems by later generations. There was Yuefu in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
According to the Records of Hanshu Yiwenzhi, there are 138 folk songs collected by Yuefu in the Western Han Dynasty, but only 30 or 40 have been circulated so far. Together with the works of folk songs and literati in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there are more than 0/00 pieces of Yuefu/kloc, which are scattered in Hanshu, Houhanshu, Wenxuan and Yutai Xinyong compiled by Xu Ling in the Southern Dynasties. Yuefu poems are arranged according to music categories and belong to four categories related to Yuefu in Han Dynasty. Among them, "Song of Sacrifice to the Suburb" is a musical song created by scholars in the Western Han Dynasty for offering sacrifices to ancestral temples, which was first seen in "Poetry of Sacrifice to the Suburb". The works marked with "ancient words" in worship songs, harmony songs and miscellaneous songs are basically western Han folk songs. Some literati works included in Zaqu Geci are from the Eastern Han Dynasty.
There are many folk songs in Han Yuefu, among which folk songs are the essence. Generally speaking, people refer to the folk songs in Han Yuefu. Folk songs such as Journey to the East Gate, Journey to the Orphan, Journey to the Sick Woman, Journey to the South of the City, Joining the Army in the Tenth Five-Year Plan, Drinking Horses in the Great Wall Cave, Pulling Grass Up the Mountain, etc., widely and profoundly reflected the social life and people's sufferings at that time. Missing and evil spirits are sincere love songs. "Shang Mo Sang" praises the contempt and resistance of working women to powerful people, and embodies the people's wishes. Peacock Flying Southeast is an unprecedented narrative poem, with the theme of criticizing feudal ethics and praising noble sentiments, and the title of Dedicated to Jiao Zhongqing's Wife, which occupies a high position in the history of China literature. Scholars in the Han Dynasty also had excellent Yuefu poems, such as Lin Yulang by Xin Yannian and Dong Jiaorao by Song Zihou, but these Yuefu poems were also created under the influence of folk songs.
The excellent tradition of realism in Han Yuefu has played an exemplary role for many poets in later generations, and its miscellaneous words have also promoted the development of poetic style.