This article is about the poetry genre yuefu. For the related governmental organ Yuefu, see Music Bureau.
Yuefu
Traditional Chinese
樂府
Simplified Chinese
乐府
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
yuèfǔ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
yuehfuu
Wade–Giles
yüeh4-fu3
IPA
[ɥêfù]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
ngohk-fú
Jyutping
ngok6-fu2
Southern Min
Tâi-lô
ga̍k-hú
Yuefu are Chinese poems composed in a folk song style. The term originally literally meant "Music Bureau", a reference to the imperial Chinese governmental organization(s) originally charged with collecting or writing the lyrics, later the term yuefu was applied to later literary imitations or adaptations of the Music Bureau's poems. The use of fu in yuefu is different from the other Chinese term fu that refers to a type of poetry or literature: although homonyms in English, the other fu (simplified Chinese: 赋; traditional Chinese: 賦; pinyin: fù) is a rhapsodic poetry/prose form of literature.
The term yuefu covers original folk songs, court imitations and versions by known poets (such as those of Li Bai). As opposed to what appears to be more of an authentic anonymous folk verse which was collected by the Music Bureau, verse written deliberately in this style, often by known authors, is often referred to as "literary yuefu". The lines of the yuefu can be of uneven length, reflecting its origins as a type of fixed-rhythm verse derived from now lost folk ballad tunes; although, later, the five-character fixed-line length became common. However, as a term of classification yuefu has a certain elusiveness when it comes to strict definition.[1] Furthermore, the literary application of the term yuefu in the modern sense of a classical form of poetry seems not to have had contemporary application until considerably after the end of the Han dynasty, thus adding a certain historically ambiguity due to its use in this literary sense not having occurred until centuries after the actual development of this type of verse itself. The use of the term yuefu to generically refer to this form of poetry does not seem to appear until the late fifth century CE.[2]
Yuefu are Chinese poems composed in a folk song style. The term originally literally meant "Music Bureau", a reference to the imperial Chinese governmental...
upon song lyrics such as the cí form or upon folk ballads such as the yuefu. The "tune", or tonal structure of these poems was also fixed within each...
pieces in his work Anthology of Yuefu Poetry (樂府詩集), which contains almost all of the surviving Music Bureau style, or Yuefu from the Han dynasty through...
the resultant development of what would eventually become known as the yuefu, or as the rhapsodic formal style; and, finally, towards the end of the...
Bureau (Traditional Chinese: 樂府; Simplified Chinese: 乐府; Hanyu Pinyin: yuèfǔ, and sometimes known as the "Imperial Music Bureau") served in the capacity...
in the history of Chinese literature. It is called one of the two best yuefu (樂府), the other being Ballad of Mulan (木蘭辭). In the poem, Liu Lanzhi (劉蘭芝)...
song" styled verse (yuefu), "old style" verse (gushi), "modern style" verse (jintishi). In all cases, rhyming is obligatory. The Yuefu is a folk ballad or...
PRC. Folk songs have been recorded since ancient times in China. The term Yuefu was used for a broad range of songs such as ballads, laments, folk songs...
excerpts, including the Ballad of Mulan, survive in the Song dynasty anthology Yuefu Shiji [zh; ko; ja] (Chinese: 乐府诗集). The historical setting of the Ballad...
although in time some poets began composing original works in yuefu style. Many yuefu poems are composed of five-character (五言) or seven-character (七言)...
impropriety. It is derived from an excerpt of a Han-era poem (樂府詩《君子行》, Yuèfǔ Shī "Jūnzǐ Xíng"). The poem includes the lines 'don't adjust your shoes...
: 181–182 迢迢牽牛星 – 佚名（東漢） Far, Far Away, the Cowherd – Anonymous (a Han dynasty yuefu: 179 ) 迢迢牽牛星， Far, far away, the Cowherd, 皎皎河漢女。 Fair, fair, the Weaving...
apply the term Yuefu in a generic sense to the Han dynasty ballad style poetry, as opposed to the earlier meaning of referring to the Yuefu, or the Han imperial...
given the working title "樂府藏龍" (jyutping: ngok6 fu2 cong4 lung4; pinyin: yuèfǔ cánglóng; literally "Music Bureau's Hidden Dragon"), a word play on the...
of his sanqu poems. His sanqu poems were collected in the book "Dongli Yuefu" (traditional Chinese: 東籬樂府; simplified Chinese: 东篱乐府; lit. 'The Eastern...
created a hybrid of the yuefu quatrain and shi quatrain. Indeed, many Tang dynasty wujue poems were inspired by these yuefu songs. In the seventh century...
the Liang dynasty, the ci followed the tradition of the Shi Jing and the yuefu: they were lyrics which developed from anonymous popular songs into a sophisticated...
Shang and Zhou, as it was now "idealized as perfect". A Music Bureau, the Yuefu, was founded or at its height by at least 120 BCE under Emperor Wu of Han...
somewhat separately show precursory in evolving of poetic form, based on the yuefu style which traces its origin to the Han dynasty Music Bureau. An example...
"The Moon over the River on a Spring Night" is a yuefu title originally created by the last Emperor of Chen Dynasty. Emperor Chen's work did not survive...
all accompanied by a brief introduction and guided by a related poem in yuefu style. The illustrations from the book were widely distributed and re-used...
become known as the "Music Bureau" style, or yuefu (and also in its later development referred to as "new yuefu", "imitation", or "literary yüeh-fu"). Jianyuan...
country's poetic autonomy. Bai Juyi was known for his interest in the old yuefu form of poetry, which was a typical form of Han poetry, namely folk ballad...
Yuefu, "Music Bureau", is synonymous with yuefu the poetry style, thus the term Yuefu (traditional Chinese: 樂府; simplified Chinese: 乐府; pinyin: yuèfǔ)...
poets could build. In the early phase of the Middle Tang period Du Fu's yuefu poetry was extended by poets such as Dai Shulun (戴叔伦, 732–789) who used...
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