Guo Maoqian was born in Xucheng, Yunzhou (now Dongping, Shandong) (History of Song Dynasty, volume 297, Guo Quanzhuan). Advise sun, source mingzi. In the seventh year of Yuanfeng (184), Shenzong joined the army for Cao Fa, a government official in Henan Province (Collection of Duke Wei of Su, Volume 59, Epitaph of Guo Jun). There are hundreds of volumes of Yuefu Poems handed down from generation to generation, which are valued by academic circles for their excellent textual research on solving problems.
Yuefu Poetry Collection divides Yuefu poetry into 12 categories, such as suburban temple songs, Yan She songs, advocacy songs, cross-wind songs, harmony songs, Qing Shang songs, dance music songs, Qin songs, miscellaneous songs, modern songs, miscellaneous songs and new Yuefu songs. Among them, it is divided into several sub-categories. For example, The Poem of Cross Blowing is divided into Han Cross Blowing and Liang Drum Angle Cross Blowing. Xianghe songs are divided into six quotations, Xianghe songs, Yintan songs, Pingdiao songs, Qingdiao songs, Hudiao songs, Chudiao songs and Daqu songs. The lyrics of Qing merchants are divided into Wu Shengge and Western Quge. Among these different pieces of music, Jiaomiao Songs and Yanshe Songs belong to the movements used by the imperial court, and their ideological content and artistic skills are less desirable. There are also some works with poor artistic value in advocacy songs and dance songs. But on the whole, most of the poems it collected are excellent folk songs and poems written by literati with the old theme of Yuefu. Among the existing collections of poems, Yuefu Poems is an important collection which was written earlier and collected all kinds of Yuefu poems in the past dynasties.
The important contribution of Yuefu Poetry Collection is to collect and classify songs of past dynasties according to their tunes, so that many works can be compiled into books. This provides great convenience for the collation and research of Yuefu poems. For example, some excellent folk songs in Han Dynasty, such as Mo Shang Sang and Dong Men Xing, are found in Song Shu? Le Zhi and Peacock Flying Southeast are found in Yu Tai Xin Yong, and some of them are scattered in books such as Yi Wen Lei Ju and other ancient books, which are collected and recorded by editors. In particular, some ancient folk ballads and proverbs are generally scattered in various historical books and some academic works, and most of them are ignored by the former. As for Du Wenlan's later works such as Ancient Proverbs, they were far later than this book and were obviously compiled on its basis.
its arrangement is to put the "ancient poems" of each tune (the earlier poems written by Anonymous) or the poems that appeared earlier in front, and the future generations' works are listed behind, so that readers can understand that some literati poems are influenced by folk songs or previous generations of literati. For example, the songs of harmony, Qiu Lu and Hao Li are in Song Shu? The book Le Zhi contains only Cao Cao's sketches, but in this book there are ancient poems of the Han Dynasty. Although Cao Cao's proposed works are higher than "ancient ci" in terms of ideological content and artistic skills, it is far less obvious to explain the origin and original intention of this tune. Another example is the tune "Mo Shang Sang", which was originally a "tune tune" in the "harmony song" of the Han Dynasty. Only the drafts of Cao Cao and Cao Pi and a rewrite of Qu Yuan's Nine Songs played by Jin Yue were recorded in Le Zhi. Shan Gui's poem; As for the ancient ci of Mo Shang Sang, it is included in the category of "Daqu". In Yuefu Poetry Collection, the ancient ci is recorded first, so that readers can understand that the works of Cao Cao and others are just new ci based on the tune of the ancient ci. This book also attaches all kinds of poems written by later generations to Mo Shang Sang, such as Picking Mulberry, Singing in a Beautiful Song, Traveling in Luo Fu, Traveling in the Southeast of Sunrise, Traveling in the Day, etc., which shows the influence of Mo Shang Sang on later literati. Another example is that Lu Ji's poem "Ode to the East" and Bao Zhao's "Ode to the East" are arranged together, which shows that the same tune can be composed into various poems with completely different contents.
Yuefu Collection of Poems records poems according to the classification of musical tunes, and explains some music whose tunes have influenced future generations. For example, Plum Blossom Falls in the Han Cross-Blowing Song and it is hard to go in the Miscellaneous Songs are only the earliest ones proposed by Bao Zhao, but the editor still classifies Plum Blossom Falls as the Han Cross-Blowing Song, and quotes Chen Wu Biezhuan in the explanation of it is hard to go, pointing out that this tune was popular among northern herders before Wei and Jin Dynasties, indicating that it is early. It reflects the influence of folk songs on literati poetry and the relationship between music and poetry, and points out the inheritance relationship between the previous generation of music and the later generation of music for the same topic of all kinds of music. For example, Huang Dansi in "The Cross Blowing of the Drum and the Beam", the editor quoted Chen Shizhi's Record of Ancient and Modern Music as "Huang Qinzi with the Cross Blowing of Han Dynasty".
Yuefu Poetry Collection gives a detailed introduction and explanation of the origin, nature and musical instruments used in singing. These explanations in the book have quoted many lost works, such as Records of the Zheng Sheng of Yuanjia by Liu Song and Zhang Yong, Records of the Ci by Wang Sengqian in Southern Qi Dynasty, Records of Ancient and Modern Music by Chen Shizhi, etc., which have preserved many precious historical materials. This is of great value to the study of the history of literature and music. But some of them may be hearsay, which is not credible.
Yuefu Poetry also has some shortcomings. In the Qing Dynasty, Ji Yun pointed out in the Catalogue of Sikuquanshu that it was not appropriate to include some literati poems in Yuefu. In addition, because it focuses on the tune, the recorded lyrics are often inconsistent with the narrative about the tune. For example, the editor of Shuidiaoge in modern lyrics thinks that it is the time when Emperor Yangdi visited Jiangdu, but the author is not indicated in the recorded "Tang Qu". In fact, I'm afraid these lyrics are mixed from the works of the Tang Dynasty. For example, the second poem "Rupo" is obviously a poem by Du Fu.
Modern scholars have also argued about the classification of this book, such as the boundary between the poems of harmony and the poems of Qing merchants. In The Beauty of China and its History, Liang Qichao thought that Qing merchants were the three tunes of Qing merchants in the Han and Wei Dynasties, while Guo Maoqian called Wu Shengge and Xi Quge "the poems of Qing merchants" and regarded them as the three tunes of Qing merchants in the Han and Wei Dynasties. Huang Jie disagreed with Liang, saying that he thought that the Qing Shang Qu in Han Dynasty had been lost, and that the Three Tunes of Qing Shang in Wei and Jin Dynasties contained eleven songs of "harmony songs". As for the tunes of Qing Shang Qu in Wei and Jin Dynasties after Sui and Tang Dynasties, they were no longer passed on, so Zheng Qiao listed Qing Shang only recorded southern folk songs after Jin Dynasty (< Song Shu? Harmony of Musical Records and Three Tone Songs of Qing Dynasty and Shang Dynasty are Zheng Qiao's Annals? Yue lue > Xianghe song and the origin of the three tones of Xianghe song "and" Answering Mr. Zhu Peixian's book on Qing merchants ").
The edition of Yuefu Poems includes the printed edition of Jiguge in the late Ming Dynasty, the clear-turned block-printed edition and the photocopies of Four Series. Literary ancient books publishing agency photocopies the residual copies of Song periodicals, and the missing volumes are supplemented with Yuan periodicals and old manuscripts. Punctuation collation of Zhonghua Book Company in 198 is now in general use.