Poetry of Han dynasty

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. For example, encounter, gynecological diseases and East Gate. Some poems reflect the sufferings and disasters brought by war and corvee to the people, such as the Tenth Five-Year Conscription, Fighting in the South and Fighting in the North, Cave Dwelling in the Great Wall of Ma Yin, and Ancient Songs. Some poems reflect the love of young men and women and the pain and sadness of abandoning their wives, such as Evil, Thinking, Pulling Grass on the Mountain, Ballad of Bald Head, Mourning, Peacock Flying Southeast, etc. There are also some poems that reflect the misfortunes brought about by social unrest, such as dead fish crying across the river, martial arts and so on. In terms of art, most of the folk songs in Han Yuefu are narrative, with strong stories and vivid characters, such as Journey to the Orphan, Mulberry on the Stranger, and Peacock Flying Southeast.

The poems of the Han dynasty flew; 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.

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. Among them, the anonymous Nineteen Ancient Poems is the highest achievement of literati's five-character poems in Han Dynasty. The authors of Nineteen Ancient Poems are mostly frustrated literati, and most of the poems express their feelings of sadness, sadness and impermanence in life, which has reached a quite mature stage in art, so it has been widely circulated among the people and become a model of five-character poems of early literati in the history of China literature. Liu Xie in Wen Xin Diao Long? Ming poetry praised it as the "crown of five words" and gave it a high evaluation.