Yuefu are Chinese poems composed in a folk song style. The term originally literally meant "Music Bureau", a reference to the imperial Chinese governmental...

The Han-Tang Yuefu Music Ensemble (Chinese: 漢唐樂府; pinyin: Hàn-Táng Yuèfǔ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hàn-tông Ga̍k-hú) is a music and dance company based in Tamsui,...

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...

: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...