The New Yuefu Movement is a poetry innovation movement, which was advocated by Tang poets Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, Zhang Ji, Li Shen and others, and advocated restoring the collection system of ancient poems, and carrying forward the tradition of satirizing current events in the Book of Songs and Yuefu since the Han and Wei Dynasties. It makes poetry play the role of "commenting on current events" and "venting human feelings", emphasizing the self-created topic of the new Yuefu, hence its name.
The so-called new Yuefu is relative to the ancient Yuefu. Guo Maoqian in Song Dynasty pointed out: "New Yuefu is a new song in Tang Dynasty. In its words, it is actually a Yuefu, but it has never been heard, so it is called a new Yuefu. " Hu Zhenheng in Ming Dynasty said: "There are differences between the old and the new Yuefu. Those who went to Yuefu were below the Han and Wei Dynasties and above Chen Sui. The ancient title was written by the Tang people. " The new topic, the ancient Yuefu has disappeared, and the Tang people made a new system. "
Subsequent development
This new theme Yuefu has developed greatly since Du Fu. Du Fu is good at describing current events with Yuefu poems, such as Chedian, Two Roads, Sad Chen Tao, Mourning for the Head, etc. , and "the rate is famous, there is nothing to rely on" ("Preface to Ancient Poems of Yuan Zhen Yuefu"). Jie Yuan, Wei, Dai Shulun and Gu Kuang. There are also new Yuefu works.
Jie Yuan also proposed that poetry creation should be "the way for emperors to control chaos and the stream of ancient people's rules and satires" (On Poetry of Erfeng), so as to achieve "the emotion above, the emotion below" (Preface to New Yuefu). They can be said to be the pioneers of the new Yuefu movement, which was the product of a specific era in Zhenyuan, Yuanhe and Nian. Pi Rixiu, Nie and Du Xunhe, poets in the late Tang Dynasty, inherited the spirit of the new Yuefu.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-New Yuefu Movement