The two styles of Fu are introduced as follows:
Fu is a marginal style between poetry and prose, which emphasizes literary grace and rhythm, and has the nature of both poetry and prose, and between them, Fu is closer to poetic style.
Fu was originally a means of expression in Chinese classical literature, which contained the meaning of narration. The ancients explained the Book of Songs and said that poetry has six means of expression, namely, style, fu, comparison, xing, elegance and recitation. It was not until Liu Che, the Emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, that Fu developed into an independent style like both poetry and prose.
Formation: It is based on the tradition of ode to the Book of Songs, close to the Songs of Chu, and the extravagant style of the Warring States and the related factors of the works of pre-Qin philosophers.
A brief introduction to Fu
As a literary style, Fu was produced as early as the late Warring States period. Its main feature is "reciting without singing", which is suitable for oral reading. Its lyrical elements are few, and it focuses on description and description, which is close to prose; When writing, it often comes out between rhymes, which is half-poetic and half-literary; In the text structure, the form of question and answer is often used.
The formation and development of Han Fu can be divided into three stages:
1. The Fu writers in the early Han Dynasty inherited the rest of Chu Ci, and the representative writers and works include Jia Yi's Fu of Hanging Qu Yuan, Huainan Xiaoshan's Solitary, Mei Cheng's Seven Hair, etc.
2. Later, it gradually evolved into the so-called prose fu with independent characteristics, which is the main body of Han Fu and the most prosperous stage of Han Fu. Representative writers and works include Sima Xiangru's Zi Xu and Shang Lin, Yang Xiong's Gan Quan, Hedong, Feather Hunting and Chang Yang, and Ban Gu's Du Fu.
3. After the middle period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the prose poems gradually declined, and the lyrical and expressive poems began to rise. The representative writers and works include Zhang Heng's Poems on Erjing and Guitian, Zhao Yi's Poems on Sorrow and Evil, Cai Yong's Poems on Narration and Behavior, and Mi Heng's Poems on Parrot.