Chapter 24 Chapter 12 Fu of the Past Dynasties

The typical Han fu is court literature, and its content is mostly about the emperor's praises, describing the prosperity of the country, the grandeur of the palaces and gardens, the abundance of water and land products, the extravagance of the emperor's life, and so on.Let's take a look at a passage in Sima Xiangru's "Shanglin Fu": The palace is separated from the palace, Mishan crosses the valley; there are four notes on the high corridor, and the Qu Pavilion is re-sit;Yizhen [Zongzong] built halls, built many terraces, and rocked [Yaoyao] bridal chambers.Look down and see nothing, climb up and touch the sky.Ben Xing is more in the boudoir [ta couch], Wan Hong [tuo drag] is in the [shun sucking] Xuan...

This is a description of the prosperity of the imperial palace.The general idea is: the palace built for the emperor is full of valleys, surrounded by high corridors, double-storey buildings, winding palaces, gorgeous rafters, jade-inlaid tiles, and chariots. The pavilion roads are endless, and the long corridor leads to everywhere. If you can't finish walking in one day, you have to stay halfway.Flatten the top of the mountain to build houses, build high platforms layer by layer, and build bridal chambers under the rocks.Bending down to look deep and dark but seeing nothing; leaning up and climbing the rafters, you can touch the blue sky.The shooting star passes through the palace gate, and the Changhong crosses the railing... From this text, we can get a glimpse of one of the characteristics of Han Fu writing.Han Fu is written longer, with open momentum, gorgeous rhetoric, and descriptions that are tirelessly detailed and extremely exaggerated.Although magnificent, but the form is rigid, with little literary charm, and piled up with rhetoric, it is difficult to understand and difficult to arouse readers' interest.This literary style was popular in the Han Dynasty for 400 years, and its famous authors include Sima Xiangru, Yang Xiong, Ban Gu, Zhang Heng, etc.