What are the artistic features of Yuefu folk songs?

Artistic achievements and influence of Yuefu folk songs

1. Yuefu folk songs in the Han Dynasty are all "taking sorrow as pleasure and taking things as cause", which truly reflect the real life at that time, and most of them come from the lowest level of society and directly express the love and hate of the broad masses of the people. Compared with Han Fu, it is quite different. Yuefu folk songs have a wide range of themes, which truly and profoundly reflect the broad social life and have a strong flavor of life. It is the inheritance and development of the realistic spirit advocated in The Book of Songs.

2. Narrative features of Yuefu folk songs in Han Dynasty. The Book of Songs is basically a lyric poem. Some of its works, such as Meng, July and Elegance, have some narrative elements, but they are only written objectively and can only be lyric poems with some narrative elements. In the folk songs of Han Yuefu, there has been a relatively complete plot, telling a story that begins and ends; For example, The Orphan's Journey highlights the tragic fate of orphans through many trips to Jia, collecting melons and transporting melons. Some extract one or two fragments of life, such as "Journey to the East Gate", only writing a scene in which the husband draws his sword and says goodbye to his wife and goes to the East Gate; There have been some stories narrated by a third party, and there have been dialogues between characters and characters with certain personalities, such as Mo Shang Sang. Qin Luofu's anti-rape image is quite vivid, with vivid dialogue, humor and drama. The story of the peacock flying southeast is even more ups and downs and exciting. Contradictions and conflicts in poetry are not single-line, but two clues unfold simultaneously. One is the conflict between Liu Lanzhi, Jiao Mu and Liu Xiong, including being sent back to China, my brother being forced to get married, the satrap proposing marriage and committing suicide. The other is the development of Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing's love, including saying goodbye in the bedroom, parting at the crossroads, making vows, mutually assured destruction, and hanging a tree in the water. When love reaches its climax, the story is over. The plot is ups and downs, and the characters are more and more distinct in the development of the plot. His fortitude, loyalty, arrogance and Mr. Liu's snobbery are vividly portrayed. Han Yuefu folk songs mark the development of China's narrative poems to a new and more mature stage.

3. The language is concise and vivid, and it is often used in a series of assumptions such as comparison, profile description, metaphor, exaggeration and personification in Regret for the Past. The image of Luo Fu in Shang Mo Sang is written as follows: "When the Monkey saw Luo Fu, he raised his mustache. When the teenager saw Luo Fu, he took off his hat and hung his head. The tiller forgets to plow, and the hoe forgets to hoe. Luo Fu, who is angry and resentful, but sits and watches the battle, uses the technique of side foil.

4. Various forms, not fixed in the four-character grid, mainly miscellaneous characters, and gradually tend to the five-character grid. The miscellaneous style of Han Yuefu developed into a free and unrestrained "Gexing" style in the Tang Dynasty. There are also many complete five-character poems in Yuefu folk songs, such as Singing by Shang Mo, Going Up the Mountain to Pick Novels, Joining the Army on the 15th, etc.

5. The influence of Yuefu poetry: First, the realistic spirit of "feeling sad and changing, starting from things" influenced the literature of later generations. Later writers, such as Cao Shi and his son, Bao Zhao, Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi, all created a large number of Yuefu poems, which pushed realistic poetry creation to a new height. The second is the influence on the development of five-character poems. In addition to miscellaneous words, there are many complete five-character poems in Han Yuefu folk songs. Although there is only one more word in five-character poems than in four-character poems, it is more convenient to combine monosyllabic words with disyllabic words, which is a new form to adapt to the development of social language at that time (at that time, disyllabic words have gradually increased, and verbs are mostly monosyllabic, so the collocation of disyllabic words and monosyllabic words is a very important problem, and five-character poems are a new form to adapt to the development of social language at that time). Five-character poetry can expand the capacity of poetry. The emergence and rise of five-character poems were initiated by Yuefu folk songs, and then extended to the whole literary world. The literati's five-character poems flourished from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Jian 'an period, and there was a grand occasion of "five-character poems surging like clouds", which made them one of the most important forms of poetry in ancient China.