Liu Cizhuang's Yuefu Anthology and His Criticism in Interpretation

Liu Cizhuang's Yuefu Anthology stands out among the criticism of Yuefu poems in the early and mid-Northern Song Dynasty. The book is composed of two themes,including Yuefu Anthology which contains 428 ancient Yuefu poems and falls into 21 categories and Interpretation of Yuefu Anthology. He advocated unexpected delight,preference of meaning to words and originalityand set a paradigm for Yuefu poem criticism by the fixed expressioncreating such a poem. Both the content and the form of theInterpretationsymbolizes the maturity Yuefu poem criticism in the early and mid-Northern Song Dynasty.