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Peacock Flying Southeast and Mulan Ci in the Northern and Southern Dynasties are called "both Yuefu and Narrative Poetry". Later, together with Peacock Flying Southeast, Mulan Poem and Wei Zhuang's Poem of Fu Qin, it was called "Three Wonders of Yuefu".

Based on a marriage tragedy that happened in Lujiang County during the reign of Emperor Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty (Shu County was supported by Shu County at the end of the Han Dynasty and moved to Hui County in Anhui Province). Singing through the ages has become an inexhaustible source of artistic creation.

Peacock Flying Southeast is the first narrative poem in the history of China literature, which Shen Guiyu called "the first long poem in ancient and modern times". Therefore, it is also called the longest narrative poem in the ancient history of China, and it is one of the glorious poems in the ancient folk literature of China.

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Peacock Flying Southeast is the longest narrative poem in Chinese folk songs of Han Yuefu. It was first seen in Xu Ling's new poem "Ancient Poems for Jiao Zhongqing's Wife" in the Southern Dynasties.

Guo Maoqian's Yuefu Poems in Song Dynasty included it in Miscellaneous Songs, named Jiao Zhongqing's Wife. The creation time of Peacock Flying Southeast was roughly during the Jian 'an period of Emperor Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The author is unknown. There are more than 340 sentences in the whole poem, 1700 words. Mainly because she married Jiao's family and was sent back to her family, her brother forced her to remarry.

On their wedding night, Lan Zhi drowned. From the end of the Han Dynasty to the Southern Dynasties, this poem was widely circulated among the people and continuously processed, and finally became the most outstanding long narrative poem among Yuefu folk songs in the Han Dynasty.

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