These two poems are long narrative poems, which have profound social and ideological significance and high artistic achievements, and are highly praised by scholars in past dynasties.
Mulan Poetry is a folk song of Yuefu in the Northern Dynasties of China, and Guo Maoqian's Yuefu Poetry Collection is classified as "Cross Blowing Songs? The long narrative poem "Song of Drum Beam and Blowing Horn" tells the story of a girl named Mulan who disguised as a man, joined the army for her father, made meritorious deeds on the battlefield, refused to be an official after returning to North Korea, and just wanted to go home and reunite. She warmly praised the woman's brave and kind qualities, her enthusiasm for defending the country and her fearless spirit. Mulan is a girl? To conceive the legendary story of Mulan, full of romance; The details are cleverly arranged. Although it is about war, it is more about life scenes and children's modality, full of life breath. Using questions and answers, parallelism, antithesis and intertextuality to describe the modality and psychology of characters is vivid and meticulous, with strong artistic appeal.
Peacock Flying Southeast is based on a marriage tragedy that happened in Lujiang County (now in Huaining and Qianshan, Anhui Province) during the reign of Emperor Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The original title is "Ancient Poetry for Jiao Zhongqing's Wife", because the first sentence of the poem is? Peacock flies southeast, wandering five miles? Therefore, it has this name again. The whole poem has more than 350 sentences, 1700 words. It mainly tells the story that Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi were forced to separate and both committed suicide, accusing the ruthlessness of feudal ethics and praising the sincere feelings and rebellious spirit of Liu Jiao and his wife. As the longest narrative poem in ancient history, Peacock Flying Southeast is concise and well-tailored, with vivid characters. It not only portrays the image of Jiao and Liu as soul mates and unyielding, but also depicts Jiao's stubbornness and arrogance. At last, the article conceives the myth that both Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing became mandarin ducks after their death, which places people's strong desire to pursue love freedom and a happy life.