Artistic features:
The biggest and most basic artistic feature of Han Yuefu is narrative. This feature is determined by the content of "karma". Although we can already see some works with narrative elements in the Book of Songs, such as Meng and Meng.
Writing skills:
The Yuefu poems in the two Han dynasties pay attention to tailoring, emphasizing narrative but slightly lyrical, laying out the scene, detailing the intermediate process and outlining the beginning and end. On the one hand, Yuefu poems in the Han Dynasty played a positive role in promoting the evolution of China's ancient poetic style, and realized the transition from four-character poems to miscellaneous poems and five-character poems.
Historical introduction and influence of the works;
Brief introduction to history:
In 1 12 BC, Yuefu was formally established in the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, collecting and sorting out the folk music of the Han nationality in various places, and arranging, adapting, creating, singing and playing the music. Han Yuefu refers to the poems adopted by Yuefu organs in Han Dynasty.
These poems were originally circulated among the people and preserved through Yuefu. The Han Dynasty was called "Song Poetry" and the Wei and Jin Dynasties was called "Yuefu" or "Han Yuefu". Poems written by later scholars imitating this form are also called "Yuefu Poems". Han Yuefu is another great collection of ancient folk songs after The Book of Songs.
The influence of the work:
China's poetry creation has a long history and a fine tradition, and has always had a good reputation as a country of poetry. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a collection of The Book of Songs. During the Warring States period, there were wars everywhere, and scholars were keen on vertical and horizontal techniques or theoretical speculation, and their poems were sparse.
However, just at this time, from the time when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty collected poems and recited them at night to the time when rumors spread in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a large number of excellent folk poems were preserved in the form of Yuefu, which not only filled the relative blank in the poetry circle of the Han Dynasty in time, but also turned the desert into a garden (Preface to Selected Poems of Yuefu in Yu Guanying).
In this sense, it is the folk songs of Han Yuefu that make the realistic spirit of China's poems, which began in The Book of Songs, develop into a richer and more creative tradition, and its importance is self-evident.