What are the yellow and dirty poems?

Erotic poems refer to poems with erotic meanings, such as Yutai New Poetry and Oleander.

The history of ancient Yuefu poems in China can be traced back at least to Yuefu folk songs in the Southern Dynasties. In the mid-Liang period, Xu Ling of the Southern Dynasties compiled 769 poems of Yutai New Poetry, including 8 five-character poems, 5-character and 4-sentence poems 1 first, 1 volume, and * * * was1volume, mainly for women and men.

Later generations called erotic poems "Yutai style". Since then, eroticism has been one of the most important themes in folk songs. Folk erotic poems are also appreciated by literati, who collect and edit these works and make them pass down. At the same time, literati also imitate folk erotic poems. In addition, literati also create their own erotic poems, which are not folk songs and are more elegant in wording.

In Yuefu poems in the Southern Dynasties, there have been short songs that openly chant and praise the sex of men and women. Such as "Jasper Song": "Jasper broke the melon, Lang was turned upside down, not ashamed of Lang, turned and hugged Lang." "Midnight Song": "I feel sorry for not combing my hair at night and wearing my shoulders." Songs at Four o'clock in the Midnight: "Open the window in the moonlight in autumn, put out the candle to untie the skirt, smile and hang the orchid" and so on. Since then, similar folk songs can be seen in Dunhuang Quzi Ci.

At the end of Ming dynasty, the collection and editing of folk erotic poems reached a climax. Feng Menglong edited a collection of popular folk songs at that time, such as Guizhi Er, Folk Songs and Oleander. , have been popular for a period of time, are collecting folk erotic poems in southern Wu language areas. These folk ditties are more frank and explicit in singing and describing the sexual love between men and women than the folk songs of the Southern Dynasties, and are highly valued by Zheng Zhenduo and other researchers in the history of folk literature. In the Qing Dynasty, some people collected and adapted folk love songs in Houya, such as Hua Guangsheng's The Legacy of Snow.