Lecture 5 Yuefu Song Sujie Li School of English, BISU 2017-10-13Poems you might know 江南 Gathering Lotus 陌上桑 By the Roadside Mulberry 孔雀东南飞 The Bride of Jiao Zhongqing 长歌行 A Song in Slow Time江南汉乐府 江南汉乐府 江南可采莲， 莲叶何田田， 鱼戏莲叶间。 鱼戏莲叶东， 鱼戏莲叶西， 鱼戏莲叶南， 鱼戏莲叶北。A General Introduction How did the name come into being? The yuefu was the music bureau set up in the second century BC to standardize court music. Apart from ceremonial pieces composed by scholars, it compiled a corpus of folk-songs drawn from all p
