The Self-consciousness of System of Collecting Poems of Folk Songs and Ballads in Han Dynasty and the Theory of Narrative Poems

The Chinese narrative poems started from the early Qin Dynasty, but the theory did not appear until Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. This marked the theory had gone to self-consciousness. Ban Gu realized clearly that the narrative poems started from feeling of sad music, behind the happening, there is a cause. It was a great contribution to the Han Dynasty. The collecting poems system originated from the Early Qin Dynasty, and developed in Han. Behind the tradition, there was a kind of political poem concept, i.e. poems interfere with politics.