The theme of peacock flying southeast

"Peacock flies southeast" is mainly about being sent back to her mother's house after marrying Jiao's family, and her brother forced her to remarry. On their wedding night, Lan Zhi committed suicide by drowning, and Jiao Zhongqing also died of double suicide. 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. Among them, a lot of exquisite writing skills are used to describe the love tragedy between Jiao Zhongqing and Liu Lanzhi.

Peacock Flying Southeast, formerly known as Ancient Poems by Mrs. Jiao Zhongqing, is the first narrative poem in the history of China literature, which is as famous as Mulan Ci. Written in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was narrated during the Jian 'an period of Emperor Xian of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It has more than 340 sentences and 2260 words, and is the longest narrative poem among the folk songs of China Han Yuefu.

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The story happened in "Jian 'an at the end of Han Dynasty". At that time, the background was that during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, "a hundred schools of thought were ousted and Confucianism was the only one", and a set of Confucian ethics gradually occupied a dominant position and developed to a quite complete and strict degree. In terms of the marriage system, there are rules and regulations such as "seven out" and "parents are the whole world".

"All parents in the world" is the main cause of Liu Jiao's tragedy. In the atmosphere of this era, under the arrogance of Jiao Mu, Jiao Zhongqing dared to stand on the side of Liu Lanzhi, showing a firm attitude of "tying the knot with Lan Zhi and sharing the same pillow", which is commendable.

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Baidu encyclopedia-Peacock flies southeast