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What is the difference in the position of expression between the poetry of the Lefu composed by the literati and the folk songs of the Han Lefu?

Lefu was first established in Qin Dynasty, which was an institution under the jurisdiction of "Shaofu" at that time specializing in the management of music, dance, singing and teaching. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, it was not preserved. In the early Han Dynasty, it was not preserved. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty rebuilt the Lefu during the rituals and music of suburban festivals, its duty was to collect Han folk songs or poems of the literati to accompany the music, so as to be ready for the court to play during the rituals or banquets. The poems it collected and organized were later called "Lefu Poems" or simply "Lefu". It was a new style of poetry following the Poetry Classic and the Chu Rhetoric. Later, some poems that were not included in Lefu were also called Lefu or Lefu.

Lefu is a specialized official office set up since the Qin Dynasty to configure musical compositions, train musicians, and collect folk songs, and Han lefu refers to the poems collected by the lefu organs during the Han Dynasty. These poems, originally circulated in Han folklore, were preserved by the Lefu, which was called "Songs and Poems" by the Han people, and began to be called "Lefu" or "Han Lefu" in the Wei and Jin dynasties. The poems made by later generations of literati after this form were also called "Lefu poems".

The Han Lefu was another great collection of ancient folk songs after the Poetry Classic, and unlike the Poetry Classic (which was also realistic), it created a new style of poetic realism. Han Lefu Folk Songs, in which female subjects occupy an important position, use popular language to construct works close to life, and gradually tend to be in five languages from miscellaneous languages, adopt narrative writing method, portray characters in detail, create characters with distinctive character, and create a more complete storyline, and can highlight

The ideological connotation focuses on depicting typical details, opening up a new stage in the development of narrative poetry, which is an important stage in the development of the five-word poetic style of the history of Chinese poetry. It is an important stage in the development of pentameter poetry in Chinese poetic history. The Han Lefu has a very high status in the history of literature, and it can stand on a par with the Poetry Classic and the Chu Rhetoric.

"The Stranger's Mulberry" and "Southeast Flight of the Peacock" are both folk songs of Han Lefu, and the latter is the longest narrative poem in ancient China, and "Southeast Flight of the Peacock" and "Mulan Poetry" are jointly called the "two jewels of Lefu". Southeast Flight of the Peacock" of the Han Dynasty, "Mulan Poem" of the Northern Dynasty, and "Qin Women's Song" of Wei Zhuang of the Tang Dynasty are known as the "Three Greatest Songs of Lefu". In addition, "If you are young and strong and don't make an effort, you will be sad in your old age" in "The Song of Songs" is also a famous line that has been passed down through the ages.

The expansion and development of the Western Han music is in the period of Emperor Wu, "Han Shu - Ritual and Music Zhi" cloud: "to the Emperor Wu set the rituals of suburban sacrifice,...... is the establishment of the music, picking the poem night recitation, there are Zhao, Dai, Qin, and Chu's eulogy. To Li Yannian for the Concordance Lieutenant, more than ten people such as Sima Xiangru man-made poems and fugues, a little on the law, to the tune of the eight tones, for nineteen chapters of the song. The function of the Music Office was further strengthened during the reign of Emperor Wu, who, in addition to organizing literati to compose songs and poems for use by the court, also collected ballads from all over the world. Many Han folk songs were sung in the Lefu and were passed down. The music and poems composed by the literati were no longer limited to feasts as in the case of the Songs of Anshi Fangzhong, but were also sung during the sacrifices to heaven, and the status of music and poems was significantly raised. According to the Book of Han - List of Hundred Officials and Ministers, when Emperor Wudi was in power, there were three chancellors under the order of music. According to the Book of Han - Rituals and Music, by the end of the reign of Emperor Chengdi, there were as many as 800 people in the music office, making it a large-scale music organization. The period of more than one hundred years between Emperor Wu and Emperor Cheng was a prosperous period for the Music Office. Emperor Liandi ascended to the throne, issued an edict to strike the music government officials, a large number of cuts in the music staff, the remaining part of the transfer to the tai music order under the jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty since then, there is no music government establishment.

The Eastern Han Dynasty's management of music is also divided into two systems, one is too much music department, the chief executive is too much order, equivalent to the Western Han Dynasty, under the Secretary of State. One is the Huangmen Drum and Blow Department, which is managed by the Cheng Hua Order and is subordinate to the Shaofu. The name "Huangmen Drum and Blow" has existed since the Western Han Dynasty, and it is very close to the Music Department. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Huangmen Drum and Blow Department, which was in charge of the Chenghua order, provided songs and poems for the Emperor's banquets, and in fact played the role of the Western Han music house. The music house poems of the Eastern Han Dynasty were mainly collected and sung by the Department, and therefore have been preserved.

Han Lefu is divided into:

1, suburban temple song: mainly noble literati for the sacrifice of music and song, gorgeous and elegant, there is no ideological content. Such as "Anshi room in the song" seventeen chapters (Chu sound), "suburban sacrifice song" nineteen chapters and so on. The music was mainly adopted from Qin music and Chu music.

2. Drumming and blowing song lyrics: also called short xiao cymbal song, is the beginning of the Han Dynasty from the northern peoples of the Northern Di music imported. Songs are later supplemented by writing, the content of a variety of. Mainly Han folk creations.

3, and song rhetoric: music is picked from all over the common music, song rhetoric is also mostly "street ballads Acura". There are many excellent works, is the essence of the Han Lefu.

4, miscellaneous songs and songs: the music of which more than I do not know where to start. Because there is no categorization, it is a class of its own. There are some excellent folk songs in it.

"Han Shu - Arts and Letters" wrote in the narrative of the Western Han music and poetry, "since Xiaowu set up music and ballads, so there is a generation, Zhao's eulogy, Qin, Chu's style. They were all inspired by sadness and music, and were inspired by events." The music poems of the two Han dynasties were all inspired by the feelings of the main body of creators, and had a very strong relevance. Inspired by the creative passion and inspiration of the author of the poem is the specific events of daily life, the poems are also expressed by the people generally concerned about sensitive issues, said the world of that era, and the bitterness and happiness, love and hate.