The development of Han Fu can be roughly divided into several stages. What are the characteristics of creative forms in each stage?

The development of Han Fu can be divided into three stages.

1. From the early Western Han Dynasty to the period of Emperor Wudi, it was the creation stage of Han Fu and the formation period of Sao Fu.

Most of the Fu works in the early Han Dynasty are similar to Qu Yuan's Sao style, focusing on expressing a sad feeling and using the modal particle "Xi", so the Fu works in the early Han Dynasty inherited Qu Yuan's Sao style from form to content. However, in the early Han Dynasty, the prose style began to be prosaic in form, and at the same time, a large number of four-sentence styles were used, showing the transition from prose style to Han style.

Representative writers and works include Jia Yi's Qu Yuan Fu and Huainan Xiaoshan Recruiting Hermits.

2. From the beginning of Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty to the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Dafu flourished in the Han Dynasty.

Han Da Fu adopts the question-and-answer style, which describes the life of emperors and nobles as a means to slightly stab the extravagance of emperors and nobles. In content, it changed the expression of grief and indignation in Sao style, and in form, it changed the characteristics of using modal particles in Chu ci, becoming a prose with grand structure, four-sentence style and special description.

Representative writers' works include Preface Fu by Sima Xiangru, Du Fu by Shang and Ban Gu, Ganquan by Yang Xiong, etc.

3. After the mid-Eastern Han Dynasty, prose poetry gradually declined, and lyric poetry began to rise.

In the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the fu focused on lyricism, and its length was short, so it was called lyric small fu.

Representative writers and works include Zhang Heng's Fu of Returning to Tian, Zhao Yi's Fu of banishing evil from the world and Cai Yong's Travel Notes.

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The position and influence of Han Fu

First of all, most of the great poems describing palaces, hunting and the capital describe and praise the vastness of the country, the richness of land and water products, the splendor of palaces, the prosperity of cities and the civil and military style of the Han Empire, which was not meaningless at that time.

The words of exhortation to feudal rulers in Fu also reflected the thoughts of these fu writers against the excessive extravagance of emperors, indicating that these fu writers were not flatterers and flatterers who had no principle of right and wrong for emperors and nobles.

Secondly, Han Dafu has made some achievements in enriching the vocabulary of literary works, training language sentence patterns, describing skills and so on, although it is dazzling, piling up words and even making good use of strange words. Many poems after Jian 'an are often inspired by Han Fu in language, rhetoric and narrative techniques.

Finally, judging from the history of literary development, the prosperity of Ci and Fu in Han Dynasty also played a certain role in promoting the formation of China's literary concept. China's rhyme began in The Book of Songs and Songs of the South, and developed from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, which initially distinguished literature from general knowledge.

In Han Shu's Records of Literature and Art, there is a special poem "Fu lue" besides "Zhuzi lue". Besides the so-called Confucianism and Confucian classics, the concept of "pian" appears. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the basic characteristics of literature were discussed and understood, and the concept of literature became increasingly clear.

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